unexpected docvalues type NONE for field 'location_0_coordinate' (expected one of [BINARY, NUMERIC, SORTED, SORTED_NUMERIC, SORTED_SET])

Question

Recently I started getting this error on solr

java.lang.IllegalStateException: unexpected docvalues type NONE for field 'location_0_coordinate' (expected one of [BINARY, NUMERIC, SORTED, SORTED_NUMERIC, SORTED_SET]). Re-index with correct docvalues type

I have a location field in the document for spatial search. And this issue is happening while doing a geospatial query,

$geo = $helper->geofilt('location', $userLat, $userLon, $searchRadius);
$query->createFilterQuery('location')->setQuery($geo);

location_0_coordinate is a dynamic field generated by solr and I am not doing anything with this. I've deleted all the documents and re-indexed the core (there are not too many documents) which seems to solve this issue for some time until it pops up again. Any idea why it is happening?

Here is the full stack trace

java.lang.IllegalStateException: unexpected docvalues type NONE for field 'location_0_coordinate' (expected one of [BINARY, NUMERIC, SORTED, SORTED_NUMERIC, SORTED_SET]). Re-index with correct docvalues type.
    at org.apache.lucene.index.DocValues.checkField(DocValues.java:212)
    at org.apache.lucene.index.DocValues.getDocsWithField(DocValues.java:324)
    at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.decorateDocValueFields(SolrIndexSearcher.java:783)
    at org.apache.solr.handler.component.RealTimeGetComponent.getInputDocument(RealTimeGetComponent.java:351)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.getUpdatedDocument(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:1130)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.versionAdd(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:1042)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.DistributedUpdateProcessor.processAdd(DistributedUpdateProcessor.java:736)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.LogUpdateProcessorFactory$LogUpdateProcessor.processAdd(LogUpdateProcessorFactory.java:103)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessorFactory$AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessor.processAdd(AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessorFactory.java:336)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.processAdd(FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.java:118)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.processAdd(FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.java:118)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.processAdd(FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.java:118)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.processAdd(FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.java:118)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.FieldNameMutatingUpdateProcessorFactory$1.processAdd(FieldNameMutatingUpdateProcessorFactory.java:74)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.processAdd(FieldMutatingUpdateProcessor.java:118)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor.processAdd(UpdateRequestProcessor.java:48)
    at org.apache.solr.update.processor.AbstractDefaultValueUpdateProcessorFactory$DefaultValueUpdateProcessor.processAdd(AbstractDefaultValueUpdateProcessorFactory.java:91)
    at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.processUpdate(XMLLoader.java:250)
    at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:177)
    at org.apache.solr.handler.UpdateRequestHandler$1.load(UpdateRequestHandler.java:97)
    at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:68)
    at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:166)
    at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2306)
    at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:658)
    at org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:464)
    at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:345)
    at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:296)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1691)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:582)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1180)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:512)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1112)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:213)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:119)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:534)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:320)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:273)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:95)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:93)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.executeProduceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:303)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:148)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:136)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:671)
    at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:589)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer 1

In Lucene 5, the sorting field use a very different kind of field. A simple not analyzed stored field is not enough. Instead you need to add the field with the type SortedDocValuesField.

According to SortedDocValuesField . You need add a StoredField with the same field name if you want to get the value from matched document.

For E.g.:

doc.add(new SortedDocValuesField ("date", new BytesRef(date) ));
doc.add(new StoredField("date", date));

Answer 2

You basically just need to reset your index. Most likely remove the data folder and restart solr. What happened was you had some data indexed in there, and then changed (updated) that field name or the schema.xml.

Upon a reload