Hi Lewis:

I'll try to find a time to do it. Thanks for the reply.

Regards
Andy



On 31 May 2012 20:37, Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> This is a good catch and I would suggest you open an issue on the Jira
> and submit a patch for the few instances of where this actually
> occurs... e.g. I think there are currently 4 such instances in
> nutch-default which concern the ordering of such tools. Admittedly
> though I haven't dug down into the code to see if it is consistent as
> you assume...
>
> If you begin by investigating (and patching if necessary) these parts
> then this would make a nice patch. As you are using trunk, I wouldn't
> imagine it would take you too long.
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Lewis
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Andy Xue <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > The following situation has come to my attention regarding
> "*nutch-site.xml*"
> > when I'm using nutch trunk:
> > When listing multiple scoring filters in the property
> "*scoring.filter.order
> > *", it is vital that no spaces/newlines/tabs are placed in front of the
> > first value. E.g.:
> > This is fine:
> > <value>org.apache.nutch.scoring.opic.OPICScoringFilter myFilter</value>
> >
> > Either of these will generate an exception:
> > <value> org.apache.nutch.scoring.opic.OPICScoringFilter myFilter</value>
> > <value>
> > org.apache.nutch.scoring.opic.OPICScoringFilter
> > myFilter
> > </value>
> >
> > The reason is: In *org.apache.nutch.scoring.ScoringFilters*, a statement
> > (on line 59) "orderedFilters = order.split("\\s+");" tries to split the
> > aforementioned string. The leading spaces will cause an empty separate
> > array element as the first element, hence result in a ClassNotFound /
> > NullPointer exception.
> >
> >
> > It can be easily fixed of course, but what concerns me is that I suspect
> > the fact that other properties will have the same problem (i.e., must
> have
> > the value content immediately follow the *<value>* tag. This is not
> > considered robust.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Regards
> > Andy
>
>
>
> --
> Lewis
>

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