[SOLR-1348] JdbcDataSource does not import Blob values correctly by default

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: contrib - DataImportHandler
• Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
• Reporter: Jay Clelland
• Created: 07/Aug/09 20:18
• Updated: 10/Nov/09 15:52
• Resolved: 07/Sep/09 09:03

Description

When blob values are returned through a java ResultSet Object they have the type byte[].
As byte[] doesn't have a useful toString method we end up with a reference type value added to the solr document (i.e. [B@1f23c5).
The problem is easy to remedy by adding the attribute 'convertType="true"' to the dataSource tag within data-config.xml.
However this attribute does not appear to be documented anywhere and I was only able to find it after a few hours digging through the source code.
A simple fix for this would be to change the default value of convertType to true within the JdbcDataSource class.