I remember somebody reporting a similar problem a few months ago. The problem has been fixed since then. You need 1.3-final version Lucene. You didn't say if that is what you are using.
Otis --- "Michael A. Schoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure there's some obvious explanation for this that I'm missing > -- I > can't get the SearchFiles demo class to work. I can successfully use > the > IndexFiles class to index a directory, but searching doesn't work; I > just > get a NullPointerException. > > So I wrote my own Search class, which is basically just a slightly > tweaked > version of SearchFiles. And I get a NullPointerException there as > well. I > added a stack trace, which shows the exception coming from > IndexSearcher.explain(). > > Any ideas? > > I've attached the source for Search.java, and below is the stack > trace. > > thanks, > Michael > > > > $ java Search > > Query: casino > > Searching for: casino > > caught a class java.lang.NullPointerException > > with message: null > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > at > org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.explain(IndexSearcher.java:196) > > at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.getMoreDocs(Hits.java:93) > > at org.apache.lucene.search.Hits.<init>(Hits.java:80) > > at > org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:71) > > at > org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher.search(Searcher.java:65) > > at Search.main(Search.java:35) > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
