Hi,

in updating Lucene from 6.1.0 to 6.2.0 I came across the following:

We have a subclass of MultiFieldQueryParser (MFQP) for creating a custom type 
of Query, which calls getFieldQuery() on its base class (MFQP).
For each of its search fields, this method has a Query created by calling 
getFieldQuery() on QueryParserBase.
Ultimately, we wind up in QueryBuilder's createFieldQuery() method, which 
depending on the number of tokens (etc.) decides what type of Query to return: 
a TermQuery, BooleanQuery, PhraseQuery, or MultiPhraseQuery.

Back in MFQP.getFieldQuery(), a variable maxTerms is determined depending on 
the type of Query returned: for a TermQuery or a BooleanQuery, its value will 
in general be nonzero, clauses are created, and a non-null Query is returned.
However, other Query subclasses result in maxTerms=0, an empty list of clauses, 
and finally null is returned.

To me, this seems like a bug, but I might as well be missing something. The 
comment "// happens for stopwords" on the return null statement, however, seems 
to suggest that Query types other than TermQuery and BooleanQuery were not 
considered properly here.
I should point out that our custom MFQP subclass so far does some rather 
unsophisticated tokenization before calling getFieldQuery() on each token, so 
characters like '*' may still slip through. So perhaps with proper 
tokenization, it is guaranteed that only TermQuery and BooleanQuery can come 
out of the chain of getFieldQuery() calls, and not handling (Multi)PhraseQuery 
in MFQP.getFieldQuery() can never cause trouble?

The code in MFQP.getFieldQuery dates back to
LUCENE-2605: Add classic QueryParser option setSplitOnWhitespace() to control 
whether to split on whitespace prior to text analysis.  Default behavior 
remains unchanged: split-on-whitespace=true.
(06 Jul 2016), when it was substantially expanded.

Best regards,
Oliver

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