Hi all, I received a report of a problem with posting data to Solr. The post method is a multi-part form, so if you inspect it, it looks something like this:
>>>>>> ----boundary--- Content-Disposition: form-data; name=metadata_attribute_name Content-Type: text; charset=utf-8 abc;def;ghi ---boundary--- <<<<<< The problem is that, for form data, multiple values for an attribute are supposed to just be repeated form elements, e.g.: >>>>>> ----boundary--- Content-Disposition: form-data; name=metadata_attribute_name Content-Type: text; charset=utf-8 abc;def;ghi ---boundary--- Content-Disposition: form-data; name=metadata_attribute_name Content-Type: text; charset=utf-8 second value ---boundary--- <<<<<< What's happening, though, when this is posted to Solr is that any semicolons in the data are being interpreted as multi-value separators. So when the above is posted, Solr apparently thinks that "metadata_attribute_name" has 4 values, "abc", "def", "ghi", and "second value", rather than two values, "abc;def;ghi" and "second value". Is this intended behavior, and if so, how am I supposed to escape ";" characters when communicating to Solr in this way? Karl
