[SOLR-435] QParser must validate existence/absence of "q" parameter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.6, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: search
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: Ryan McKinley
• Created: 12/Dec/07 22:36
• Updated: 01/Apr/12 04:08
• Resolved: 01/Apr/12 04:08

Description

Each QParser should check if "q" exists or not. For some it will be required others not.
currently it throws a null pointer:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.solr.common.util.StrUtils.splitSmart(StrUtils.java:36)
	at org.apache.solr.search.OldLuceneQParser.parse(LuceneQParserPlugin.java:104)
	at org.apache.solr.search.QParser.getQuery(QParser.java:80)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.prepare(QueryComponent.java:67)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:150)
        ...

see:
http://www.nabble.com/query-parsing-error-to14124285.html#a14140108

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SOLR-525 NullPointerException with no query or empty query
• relates to: SOLR-2001 NPE using http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=