[SOLR-2121] distributed highlighting using q.alt=*:* causes NPE in finishStages

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Assignee: Koji Sekiguchi
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 14/Sep/10 23:13
• Updated: 02/Oct/16 07:41
• Resolved: 02/Oct/16 07:41

Description

As noted on the mailing list by Ron Mayer, using the example configs and example data on trunk, this query works...

http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q.alt=*:*&hl=on&defType=edismax

...but this query causes and NullPointerException...

http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q.alt=*:*&hl=on&defType=edismax&shards=localhost:8983/solr

Stack Trace...

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.solr.handler.component.HighlightComponent.finishStage(HighlightComponent.java:158)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:310)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131)
	at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1324)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:337)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:240)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)