[SOLR-2736] SolrJSON reports "invalid key" on valid keys when JSON list of docs has null values

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: update
• Labels: json update
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Neil Hooey
• Created: 29/Aug/11 19:03
• Updated: 29/Aug/11 19:13
• Resolved: 29/Aug/11 19:13

Description

If you index Solr like this, and it works:

curl 'http://localhot:8983/solr/update/json?wt=json' -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '[

{ "id": "5", "media_type": "image", "namespace": "foo" }

]'

Then this will fail:

curl 'http://localhot:8983/solr/update/json?wt=json' -H 'Content-type: application/json' -d '[

{ "id": "5", "media_type": "image", "description": null, "namespace": "foo" }

]'

But it will give a confusing error message:

SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: invalid key: namespace

There should be an error message that says "null value not allowed for key: 'description'" or something else that's reasonable.