I'm trying to use the bf parameter to boost a dismax query based on the value 
of a certain (integer) field. The trouble is that for some of the documents 
this field is empty (rather than zero), which means that there's an error when 
using the bf parameter:

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select?q=query+string&qf=body&qt=dismax&bf=intfield
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java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
        at 
java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48)
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:468)
        at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:497)
        at 
org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$3.parseInt(FieldCacheImpl.java:148)
        at 
org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$7.createValue(FieldCacheImpl.java:261)
        at 
org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$Cache.get(FieldCacheImpl.java:72)
        at 
org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl.getInts(FieldCacheImpl.java:244)
        at 
org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl.getInts(FieldCacheImpl.java:238)
        at 
org.apache.solr.search.function.IntFieldSource.getValues(IntFieldSource.java:50)
        at 
org.apache.solr.search.function.FunctionQuery$AllScorer.<init>(FunctionQuery.java:103)
        at 
org.apache.solr.search.function.FunctionQuery$FunctionWeight.scorer(FunctionQuery.java:81)
        at 
org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery$BooleanWeight.scorer(BooleanQuery.java:233)
        at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:143)
        at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:118)
        at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:97)
        at 
org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListNC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:894)
        at 
org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:810)
        at 
org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocList(SolrIndexSearcher.java:701)
        at 
org.apache.solr.handler.DisMaxRequestHandler.handleRequestBody(DisMaxRequestHandler.java:319)
        at 
org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:78)
        at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:811)
        at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrServlet.doGet(SolrServlet.java:64)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:200)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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Is there a way round this?

alf

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