[SOLR-7264] DocValues should support BoolField

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 6.2, 7.0
• Assignee: Erick Erickson
• Reporter: Kevin Osborn
• Created: 18/Mar/15 04:52
• Updated: 24/Jul/24 16:01
• Resolved: 12/Jun/16 02:01

Description

DocValues supports numerics and strings, but it currently does not support booleans. Please add this support.

Here is the error message you get if you try to use DocValues with a BoolField.

ERROR - 2015-03-18 00:49:54.041; org.apache.solr.common.SolrException; null:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: SolrCore 'test' is not available due to init failure: Could not load conf for core test: F
ield type boolean{class=org.apache.solr.schema.BoolField,analyzer=org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType$DefaultAnalyzer,args={sortMissingLast=true, class=solr.BoolField}} does not support doc values. Schema fi
le is /Users/kosborn/solr/server/solr/test/conf/schema.xml

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SOLR-5933 BoolField should support docValues
• is part of: SOLR-9187 Support dates and booleans in /export handler, support boolean DocValues fields