[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1448) add getFinalOffset() to TokenStream

["Michael McCandless (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1448:
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Michael are you going to get to this soonish?  Else let's push until after 3.0?

> add getFinalOffset() to TokenStream
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1448
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1448
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Analysis
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael Busch
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-1448.patch, LUCENE-1448.patch, LUCENE-1448.patch, LUCENE-1448.patch
>
>
> If you add multiple Fieldable instances for the same field name to a document, and you then index those fields with TermVectors storing offsets, it's very likely the offsets for all but the first field instance will be wrong.
> This is because IndexWriter under the hood adds a cumulative base to the offsets of each field instance, where that base is 1 + the endOffset of the last token it saw when analyzing that field.
> But this logic is overly simplistic.  For example, if the WhitespaceAnalyzer is being used, and the text being analyzed ended in 3 whitespace characters, then that information is lost and then next field's offsets are then all 3 too small.  Similarly, if a StopFilter appears in the chain, and the last N tokens were stop words, then the base will be 1 + the endOffset of the last non-stopword token.
> To fix this, I'd like to add a new getFinalOffset() to TokenStream.  I'm thinking by default it returns -1, which means "I don't know so you figure it out", meaning we fallback to the faulty logic we have today.
> This has come up several times on the user's list.

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