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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1646:
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bq. I guess that's true if you look at exceptions as a logging mechanism, but
in our case it's a parsing exception for text coming from the user. Because of
this, our use case is for the user to get a useful error message, and it's not
useful at all if we just tell them their entire query was bad. Thus we have
inserted improvements (in our subclass) to make it complain only about the
fragment of the query which is actually a problem, so they know which part to
fix.
I agree, in general an app ought to be catching this ParseException
and messaging something much more succinct/digestible to the end
user.
When QueryParser throws ParseException, it does attempt to explain
what went wrong in many cases. It sounds like you've modified it
further to do a better job? Is this something you could donate back?
I agree we should make it easier to customize the ParseException, but
I think by default having the exception message include the full query
is useful for those apps that simply log the exception. This way we
can have our cake and eat it too...
bq. Related, but is there any way it could at least be reduced to the portion
of the query which caused the problem? In a way it would be nice if
ParseException had methods to get out the problematic fragment (my subclass has
it...) I'm guessing this is much easier for exceptions relating to values
inside fields which otherwise parsed correctly, but a lot harder to do for
exceptions from the parser proper.
It seems like it already makes some effort here? Eg it has
attrs like currentToken, expectedTokenSequences,
etc., recorded when the exception is thrown. And getMessage()
pulls from these attrs to build up the message? Can you post a patch
with your improvements here?
> QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better
> one
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>
> Key: LUCENE-1646
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.4.1
> Reporter: Trejkaz
>
> We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields. When these
> fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which
> has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
> Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
> {code}
> catch (ParseException tme) {
> // rethrow to include the original query:
> throw new ParseException("Cannot parse '" +query+ "': " +
> tme.getMessage());
> }
> {code}
> Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with
> no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append
> getMessage() but that isn't localised. And it also throws away the
> underlying cause for the exception.)
> I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller
> knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they
> are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.
> Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know
> is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.
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