[SOLR-11232] String index out of range exception thrown at PassageRankingComponent.JAVA when trying to query Solr

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 5.5.4
• Component/s: search, SolrJ
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Albert WONG Capco
• Created: 13/Aug/17 12:10
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:21
• Resolved: 13/Aug/17 17:39

Description

When trying to query a certain number of wordings, Solr throws exception as shown below:

Aug 10, 2017 5:29:59 PM org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore execute
INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/answer params=

{qa=true&q=salary?&defType=qa&wt=json&qa.qf=doctitle}

hits=4 status=0 QTime=17
Aug 10, 2017 8:59:33 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log
SEVERE: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 54
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1963)
at com.tamingtext.qa.PassageRankingComponent.process(PassageRankingComponent.java:185)
at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:186)
at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1376)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:365)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:260)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:928)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228)
at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)