anyway, I fixed it.
You'll need to delete the index already built, though, and I'd love to hear
back from you when you try it.
B.
On 20 Jun 2012, at 12:05, Rory Franklin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We've got a machine with couchdb-lucene 0.9 on it and various machines that
> use 0.7 and there seems to be a discrepancy between the two versions.
>
> In one of our indexes we are boosting a particular field so that it comes
> above others in search results (we are searching for an ID and linked ID's in
> other documents, but want the document that matches the ID directly to return
> above the linked documents), and the definition looks like this:
>
> ret.add(doc.entry_human_id, {'field':'sort_entry_human_id', 'type' : 'int',
> 'boost' : 1.5})
>
> On 0.7 this works absolutely fine, but on 0.9 we are seeing this error:
>
> 2012-06-20 10:48:04,251 WARN [lia_development] Exiting due to exception.
> java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: You cannot set an index-time boost:
> norms are omitted for field 'sort_entry_human_id'
> at
> org.apache.lucene.index.DocInverterPerField.processFields(DocInverterPerField.java:85)
> at
> org.apache.lucene.index.DocFieldProcessorPerThread.processDocument(DocFieldProcessorPerThread.java:276)
> at
> org.apache.lucene.index.DocumentsWriter.updateDocuments(DocumentsWriter.java:852)
> at
> org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.updateDocuments(IndexWriter.java:2167)
> at
> com.github.rnewson.couchdb.lucene.DatabaseIndexer.handleResponse(DatabaseIndexer.java:393)
> at
> com.github.rnewson.couchdb.lucene.DatabaseIndexer.handleResponse(DatabaseIndexer.java:83)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:735)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:709)
> at
> org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:700)
> at
> com.github.rnewson.couchdb.lucene.DatabaseIndexer.run(DatabaseIndexer.java:473)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)
>
>
>
> Removing the boost and restarting couchdb-lucene resolves the issue, I'm just
> curious as to what the problem may be?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rory
