[LUCENE-5450] NPE and Illegal Argument Exception in wrapped SpanMultiTerms with no matches

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.7.1, 4.8, 6.0
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 18/Feb/14 18:26
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:00
• Resolved: 17/Mar/14 18:57

Description

There are problems with the handling of wrapped span multiterms that don't have any matches.

1) In the test framework, when AssertingIndexSearcher does a rewrite and then checks for equality, there's an NPE for SpanNear and SpanOr:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at __randomizedtesting.SeedInfo.seed([8E96A398C89A703B:338EB53A2EDBE8CC]:0)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery.addClause(SpanOrQuery.java:57)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery.<init>(SpanOrQuery.java:49)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery.clone(SpanOrQuery.java:86)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery.clone(SpanOrQuery.java:39)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.QueryUtils.checkHashEquals(QueryUtils.java:57)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.QueryUtils.check(QueryUtils.java:52)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.AssertingIndexSearcher.rewrite(AssertingIndexSearcher.java:80)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight(IndexSearcher.java:675)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.AssertingIndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight(AssertingIndexSearcher.java:59)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:273)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:261)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.TestSpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.testNoSuchMultiTermsInOr(TestSpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.java:177)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.RandomizedRunner.invoke(RandomizedRunner.java:1559)
...

2) The same issue is causing a "Clauses must have same field" illegal argument exception in a SpanNotQuery.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Clauses must have same field.
	at __randomizedtesting.SeedInfo.seed([779E5DD7E7523C72:4C2ECAAB938038F9]:0)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanNotQuery.<init>(SpanNotQuery.java:66)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanNotQuery.clone(SpanNotQuery.java:99)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanNotQuery.clone(SpanNotQuery.java:36)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.QueryUtils.checkHashEquals(QueryUtils.java:57)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.QueryUtils.check(QueryUtils.java:52)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.AssertingIndexSearcher.rewrite(AssertingIndexSearcher.java:80)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight(IndexSearcher.java:675)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.AssertingIndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight(AssertingIndexSearcher.java:59)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:273)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:261)
	at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.TestSpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.testNoSuchMultiTermsInNotNear(TestSpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.java:144)
...

The basic problem is that an empty SpanQuery (SpanOrQuery with zero clauses) does not have a field, and much of our code assumes that the field is not null.

Test case and patch on way.