[LUCENE-579] TermPositionVector offsets incorrect if indexed field has multiple values and one ends with non-term chars

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: modules/analysis
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Keiron McCammon
• Created: 26/May/06 04:18
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:27
• Resolved: 31/Dec/08 16:09

Description

If you add multiple values for a field with term vector positions and offsets enabled and one of the values ends with a non-term then the offsets for the terms from subsequent values are wrong. For example (note the '.' in the first value):

IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(directory, new SimpleAnalyzer(), true);

Document doc = new Document();

doc.add(new Field("", "one.", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED, Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS));

doc.add(new Field("", "two", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED, Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS));

writer.addDocument(doc);

writer.optimize();

writer.close();

IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(directory);

Hits hits = searcher.search(new MatchAllDocsQuery());

Highlighter highlighter = new Highlighter(new SimpleHTMLFormatter(),
new QueryScorer(new TermQuery(new Term("", "camera")), searcher.getIndexReader(), ""));

for (int i = 0; i < hits.length(); ++i) {

TermPositionVector v = (TermPositionVector) searcher.getIndexReader().getTermFreqVector(
hits.id, "");

StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();

for (String s : hits.doc.getValues(""))

{ str.append(s); str.append(" "); }

System.out.println(str);

TokenStream tokenStream = TokenSources.getTokenStream(v, false);

String[] terms = v.getTerms();
int[] freq = v.getTermFrequencies();

for (int j = 0; j < terms.length; ++j) {

System.out.print(terms[j] + ":" + freq[j] + ":");

int[] pos = v.getTermPositions(j);

System.out.print(Arrays.toString(pos));

TermVectorOffsetInfo[] offset = v.getOffsets(j);

for (int k = 0; k < offset.length; ++k)

{ System.out.print(":"); System.out.print(str.substring(offset[k].getStartOffset(), offset[k].getEndOffset())); }

System.out.println();
}
}

searcher.close();

If I run the above I get:
one:1:[0]:one
two:1:[1]: tw

Note that the offsets for the second term are off by 1.

It seems to be that the length of the value that is stored is not taken into account when calculating the offset for the fields of the next value.

I noticed ths problem when using the highlight contrib package which can make use of term vectors for highlighting. I also noticed that the offset for the second string is +1 the end of the previous value, so when concatenating the fields values to pass to the hgighlighter I add to append a ' ' character after each string...which is quite useful, but not documented anywhere.

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-713 File Formats Documentation is not correct for Term Vectors