[SOLR-6023] NPE in /admin/field with no parameters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.7.2, 4.8
• Fix Version/s: 4.8.1, 4.9, 6.0
• Component/s: Schema and Analysis
• Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
• Reporter: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
• Created: 26/Apr/14 19:02
• Updated: 09/May/16 18:46
• Resolved: 03/May/14 13:03

Description

Send a request to /field/analysis with the example jetty and you get a NPE

Request:

http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/analysis/field

<response>
<lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">500</int><int name="QTime">2</int></lst><lst name="error"><str name="trace">java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema$DynamicReplacement$DynamicPattern$NameEndsWith.matches(IndexSchema.java:983)
	at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema$DynamicReplacement.matches(IndexSchema.java:997)
	at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema.getDynamicFieldType(IndexSchema.java:1244)
	at org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema.getFieldType(IndexSchema.java:1198)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.FieldAnalysisRequestHandler.handleAnalysisRequest(FieldAnalysisRequestHandler.java:189)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.FieldAnalysisRequestHandler.doAnalysis(FieldAnalysisRequestHandler.java:101)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.AnalysisRequestHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(AnalysisRequestHandlerBase.java:60)
	at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135)
	at org.apache.solr.core.RequestHandlers$LazyRequestHandlerWrapper.handleRequest(RequestHandlers.java:241)
	at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1962)
	at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:774)
</str><int name="code">500</int></lst>
</response>

We should fix it to return a proper BAD_REQUEST error message.

Issue Links

• breaks: SOLR-6149 Analysis browser not working in solr 4.8.1