[SOLR-1381] Highlighter throws null pointer exception when field has termPositions=true

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: highlighter

Environment

freshly installed solr-nightly build (2009-08-25)

• Assignee: Grant Ingersoll
• Reporter: Thorsten Fischer
• Created: 25/Aug/09 13:03
• Updated: 10/Nov/09 15:52
• Resolved: 10/Sep/09 16:49

Description

Highlighting does not work when a field that is used to be highlightened has the attribute termPositions="true".
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. use the original data and config files and add termPositions="true" to the field "name" in schema.xml
2. post the example files.
3. do the request: http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=solr&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on&hl=on&hl.fl=name
4. get this

null

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.solr.highlight.TermOffsetsTokenStream$1.next(DefaultSolrHighlighter.java:448)
at org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream.incrementToken(TokenStream.java:284)
at org.apache.lucene.search.highlight.Highlighter.getBestTextFragments(Highlighter.java:246)
at org.apache.solr.highlight.DefaultSolrHighlighter.doHighlighting(DefaultSolrHighlighter.java:321)
at org.apache.solr.handler.component.HighlightComponent.process(HighlightComponent.java:89)
at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:195)
at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1299)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:338)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:241)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1089)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:365)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:285)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:502)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:821)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:513)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:208)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:378)
at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:226)
at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)