[LUCENE-337] Combination of BooleanQuery and PhrasePrefixQuery can provoke UnsupportedOperationException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: core/search

Environment

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3
Platform: All

• Bugzilla Id: 33161
• Assignee: Lucene Developers
• Reporter: Rhett Sutphin
• Created: 19/Jan/05 07:22
• Updated: 15/Sep/24 22:24
• Resolved: 27/May/06 01:38

Description

A BooleanQuery including a PhrasePrefixQuery can cause an exception to be thrown
from BooleanScorer#skipTo when the search is executed:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
at org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanScorer.skipTo(BooleanScorer.java:189)
at org.apache.lucene.search.ConjunctionScorer.doNext(ConjunctionScorer.java:53)
at org.apache.lucene.search.ConjunctionScorer.next(ConjunctionScorer.java:48)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Scorer.score(Scorer.java:37)
at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:92)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:64)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.<init>(Hits.java:43)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:33)
at org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:27)
... (non-lucene code)

The problem appears to be that PhrasePrefixQuery optimizes itself into a
BooleanQuery when it contains only one term. However, it does this in the
createWeight() method of its scorer instead of in the rewrite method of the
query itself. Thus it bypasses the boolean typecheck when BooleanQuery is
deciding whether to use ConjunctionScorer or BooleanScorer, eventually resulting
in the UOE.