[SOLR-12020] terms faceting on date field fails in distributed refinement

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.6
• Fix Version/s: 7.3
• Component/s: Facet Module
• Assignee: Yonik Seeley
• Reporter: Yonik Seeley
• Created: 22/Feb/18 22:08
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:11
• Resolved: 05/Mar/18 17:36

Description

This appears to be a regression, as the reporter indicates that Solr 6.2 worked and Solr 6.6 does not.
http://markmail.org/message/hwlajuy5jnmf4yd6

I've reproduced the issue on the master branch (future v8) as well.
A typical exception that results from a terms facet on a date field is:

org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Invalid Date String:'Sat Feb 03 01:02:03 WET 2001'
	at org.apache.solr.util.DateMathParser.parseMath(DateMathParser.java:247)
	at org.apache.solr.util.DateMathParser.parseMath(DateMathParser.java:226)
	at org.apache.solr.schema.DatePointField.toNativeType(DatePointField.java:113)
	at org.apache.solr.search.facet.FacetFieldProcessor.refineBucket(FacetFieldProcessor.java:683)
	at org.apache.solr.search.facet.FacetFieldProcessor.refineFacets(FacetFieldProcessor.java:638)
	at org.apache.solr.search.facet.FacetFieldProcessorByArray.calcFacets(FacetFieldProcessorByArray.java:66)
	at org.apache.solr.search.facet.FacetFieldProcessorByArray.process(FacetFieldProcessorByArray.java:58)