Hm, I've got the latest Lucene (from CVS) and don't have this issue.
The query I tried on our index is:
+title:of +title:someotherwordthatDOESgetmeresults
Otis
--- "Biswas, Goutam_Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Lucene Users
>
> Lucene throws an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException() if the first
> term in
> my query string is a stopWord. Why is it so ?
>
> I'm making AND as the default mode of search. So I'm adding an
> AND
> operator between each term of my query. That is if my query
> is 'cats dogs' I'm rephrasing it as 'cats AND dogs'. But if the
> first
> term is a stopWord (example: 'of cats ...') I get the
> ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
>
> I'm tried something like the following to get away with this:
>
> // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> String queryStr = "of AND by AND for AND cats AND dogs"; //
> 'of', 'by',
> 'for' are stopwords
> Query query = null;
> Analyzer myAnalyzer = new MyAnalyzer(stopWords);
> try {
> query = QueryParser.parse(queryStr, "content", myAnalyzer);
> //
> content is the default field to search.
> } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
> queryStr = queryStr.substring(queryStr.indexOf("AND") + 3);
> }
> //
> // so my final queryStr becomes 'cats AND dogs' which works
> fine!
> //
> // >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Is there a better way to handle this situation ? or can someone
> throw a
> pointer on why this error is occuring in the first place ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Goutam
>
>
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