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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:11:17 -0800
From: Doug Cutting <cutting@lucene.com>
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Subject: Re: NPE when using explain
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This looks like a bug.  I think your query contains a term in a field 
that is not indexed, and hence has no norm value.  Perhaps (as Brisbart 
Franck) suggests, it is indexed in some documents, but not in others. 
But, in a single IndexReader, if it is indexed in any document, it 
should have a norm value for all documents.  Are you using a 
MultiSearcher?  I can see how this would happen with a MultiSearcher, 
where different fields exist in the different indexes, and the query 
contains a term which is only in one of the indexes.

Try applying the following patch and tell me if it helps.

--- TermQuery.java.~1.7.~       2003-01-15 11:25:04.000000000 -0800
+++ TermQuery.java      2003-12-04 10:07:46.000000000 -0800
@@ -139,7 +139,10 @@
        fieldExpl.addDetail(idfExpl);

        Explanation fieldNormExpl = new Explanation();
- 
fieldNormExpl.setValue(Similarity.decodeNorm(reader.norms(field)[doc]));
+      byte[] fieldNorms = reader.norms(field);
+      float fieldNorm =
+        fieldNorms!=null ? Similarity.decodeNorm(fieldNorms[doc]) : 0.0f;
+      fieldNormExpl.setValue(fieldNorm);
        fieldNormExpl.setDescription("fieldNorm(field="+field+", 
doc="+doc+")");
        fieldExpl.addDetail(fieldNormExpl);

Thanks,

Doug


Dror Matalon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use IndexSearcher.explain(Query query, int doc) and am
> getting a NPE. If I remove the "explain" the search works fine.
> I poked a little at the TermQuery.java code, but I can't really tell
> what's causing the exception.
> 
> This is with 1.3rc3
> 
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at
> org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery$TermWeight.explain(TermQuery.java:142) at
> org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery$BooleanWeight.explain(BooleanQuery.java:186) at
> org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.explain(IndexSearcher.java:196)
> at LuceneCli.search(LuceneCli.java:78)
> at LuceneLine.handleCommand(LuceneLine.java:188)
> at LuceneLine.<init>(LuceneLine.java:117)
> at LuceneLine.main(LuceneLine.java:136)
> 
> The area of the code that caused this.
> 
>     Hits hits = initSearch(queryString);
>     System.out.println(hits.length() + " total matching documents");
> 
>     final int HITS_PER_PAGE = 10;
>     message ("--------------------------------------");
>     for (int start = 0; start < hits.length(); start += HITS_PER_PAGE) {
>       int end = Math.min(hits.length(), start + HITS_PER_PAGE);
>       for (int ii = start; ii < end; ii++) {
>         Document doc = hits.doc(ii);
>         message ("---------------- " + ii + " score:" + hits.score(ii) + "---------------------");
>         if (explain) {
>           Explanation exp = searcher.explain(query, ii);
>           message("Explanation:" + exp.toString());
>         }
>         printHit(doc);
>       }
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dror
> 


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