[SOLR-2441] Requesting invalid field names should return an error

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Ryan McKinley
• Reporter: Ryan McKinley
• Created: 24/Mar/11 21:25
• Updated: 09/Mar/12 01:29
• Resolved: 09/Mar/12 01:29

Description

If you send a request for fl=foofoofoo and that field does not exist, solr just returns empty documents:

<result name="response" numFound="17" start="0">
  <doc></doc>
  <doc></doc>
  <doc></doc>
</result>

This seems like an error, not something we should support. (I think requesting an invalid field name should also be an error, but that is another issue)

The distributed tests check if this is supported – I don't think they should