undefined field text Solrj

Question

I am trying to do a sample program to search using solrj. My code is below Basically i am trying to search for a word which contains every where in book_name field. When search for more than one word i am getting the Exception

HttpSolrClient solr=new HttpSolrClient("http://localhost:8983/solr/Books");
          System.out.println("here we go");
          SolrQuery query = new SolrQuery();
          query.setQuery("book_name:indian poems");
          QueryResponse response=solr.query(query);
          System.out.println(response.toString());

but its showing an exception

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient$RemoteSolrException: Error from server at http://localhost:8983/solr/Books: undefined field text.

But if i search it for one word its working fine

Answer 1

Probably text is your default search field.

...depending on your search handler configuration: This means for your case probably: if your search query is book_name:indian poems , solr searches for the word indian in the field book_name and searches for poems in the default search field - depending on your solr.xml configuration.

So if you like to search for both words in that field, the following should work:

query.setQuery("book_name:indian book_name:poems");

An other option is, to set the default search field to book_name , for example by changeing the solr.xml or defining the qf parameter for each query.

I'm not familiar with solrj , but something like this could work:

query.set("qf", "book_name");