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Extra charcter 'u' for multivalued fields in hue search dashboard

sanjaydudi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:57:45 GMT

Hi Team,

I am indexing Json Documents into cloudera search using morphline.

When I view the documents using cloudera hue dashboard, I see 'u' character before every value of multivalued field. For example, as shown below every value has extra 'u' char for multivalued field "offices":

offices
[u'New york',u'New Delhi',u'Paris']
[u'']
[u'Mumbai']
[u'New Delhi']
[u'Chicago']

Schema.xml entry
<field name="offices" type="text_general" multiValued="true"/>

Is there a way to get rid of this 'u' character. It is not there in the data as well as I do not see it in apache solr UI.

I am using Hue-3.7.0 with cloudera CDH-5.4.5
cat /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.4.5-1.cdh5.4.5.p0.7/lib/hue/VERSION |grep -i version=
VERSION="3.7.0"

Regards,
-Sanjay

Re: Extra charcter 'u' for multivalued fields in hue search dashboard

Romainr — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 17:24:20 GMT

This is normal AFAIK for multi value fields. Don't you see the same in the
native Solr Query UI?

Romain

Re: Extra charcter 'u' for multivalued fields in hue search dashboard

sanjaydudi — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:33:00 GMT

No I do see the "u" character in Apache solr native UI as shown below :

However in hue it shows extrac char "u" as shown below :

Regards,

-Sanjay

Re: Extra charcter 'u' for multivalued fields in hue search dashboard

sanjaydudi — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:06:55 GMT

Any updates on this Romain ?

One correction in above comment text

"No I do not see the "u" character in Apache solr native UI"

Re: Extra charcter 'u' for multivalued fields in hue search dashboard

Romainr — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:43:55 GMT

Indeed, this is a bug that is going to be fixed with
https://review.cloudera.org/r/5962/ in Hue 3.10 and CDH5.5

Thanks for the report!

Romain