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Search with sort fails when a document has a missing value

           Summary: Search with sort fails when a document has a missing
                    value
           Product: Lucene
           Version: CVS Nightly - Specify date in submission
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Search
        AssignedTo: lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ddreon1@yahoo.com


Testing on version: lucene-1.4-rc2

Call in question: IndexSearcher.search(Query query, Filter filter, int nDocs, 
Sort sort) 

Description: I'm making a call to search with a sort field - in my case I'm 
sorting by date. If any document in the results set (Hits) has a missing value 
in the sort field, the entire call throws an [uncaught] exception during the 
sorting process with no results returned. 

This is an undesireable result, and the prospects for patching this problem 
outside the search classes are ugly, e.g. trying to patch the index itself.

This is actually a critical function in my application. Thank you for 
addressing it.

-Dan

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