[LUCENE-1631] CLONE -You cannot sort on fields that don't exist

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.9
• Component/s: core/search

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

• Bugzilla Id: 34477
• Assignee: Yonik Seeley
• Reporter: steve neo
• Created: 08/May/09 15:18
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:00
• Resolved: 02/Jun/09 19:49

Description

I still get this error in 2.4.1 - if field does not exist in index, there is nullPointException if it search over multiple index. In following test code, there is runtime error, here is part of test code.

indexSingleFieldDocs(new Field[]

{new Field("ds", "xyz", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED) , new Field("dsc", "hello", Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.ANALYZED)}

);
indexSingleFieldDocs(new Field[]

{new Field("ds", "def", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED) , new Field("dsc", "hello", Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.ANALYZED)}

);

...

QueryParser p = new QueryParser("dsc", new StandardAnalyzer());
Query q = p.parse("hello");
Hits hits = searcher.search(q,new Sort("ds"));

If change "ds" to some others, got this exception:
java.lang.RuntimeException: field "ds" does not appear to be indexed
at org.apache.lucene.search.ExtendedFieldCacheImpl$5.createValue(ExtendedFieldCacheImpl.java:173)
at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$Cache.get(FieldCacheImpl.java:71)
at org.apache.lucene.search.ExtendedFieldCacheImpl.getAuto(ExtendedFieldCacheImpl.java:127)
at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue.comparatorAuto(FieldSortedHitQueue.java:487)
at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue$1.createValue(FieldSortedHitQueue.java:184)
at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$Cache.get(FieldCacheImpl.java:71)
at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue.getCachedComparator(FieldSortedHitQueue.java:167)
at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue.<init>(FieldSortedHitQueue.java:55)
at org.apache.lucene.search.TopFieldDocCollector.<init>(TopFieldDocCollector.java:43)
at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:121)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:113)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.<init>(Hits.java:90)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:61)
at com.edgenius.test.lucene.TestLucene.testSort(TestLucene.java:207)

Issue Links

• is a clone of: LUCENE-374 You cannot sort on fields that don't exist
• is related to: LUCENE-916 It is not possible to sort with sorttype auto on a field that does not exist