Bug: Negative wildcard searches on MultiSearcher not eliminating correctly.

["Halsey, Stephen" <sh...@verisign.com>]

Hi,
 
I think I've discovered a bug. I've opened the following issue:-
 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1300
 
with a test case class and the following description:-
 
 
If you do a search for a negative wildcard query on a MultiSearcher
where one of the searchers is empty e.g. "lucene -bug*" the hits
returned incorrectly include articles with words that should be
eliminated, e.g. "bug" and "bugs". This is because the query expansion
is done on the index with docs in and the empty ndex separately and then
combined as an OR to be run on the MultiSearcher. This incorrectly lets
in docs that have the excluded wildcard terms, e.g. "bug" nd bugs". This
bug would also show up with two indexes full of docs, and I can send a
test to show that if required, but I think this test demonstrates the
bug in the implest way. 

The attached class TestMultiSearcherNegativeWildcardQueryExpansion.java
can be put in with other tests in org.apache.lucene.search and run and
will fail, showing the bug exists.

I have tested this bug with the currently unreleased 2.3.2 and the
released 2.1 and 2.3.1 and it fails on all.

With lucene-1.5-rc1 it passes (with mods to make it work with old API)
see TestMultiSearcherNegativeWildcardQueryExpansionWorksWith151.java
attachment.

 

Please contact me if you need any further clarification.

thanks

 

Steve.

 

RE: Negative wildcard searches on MultiSearcher not eliminating correctly.

[Steven A Rowe <sa...@syr.edu>]

Hi Steve,

On 06/06/2008 at 2:10 PM, Halsey, Stephen wrote:
> I think I've discovered a bug. I've opened the following issue:-
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1300
> I have tested this bug with the currently unreleased 2.3.2 and the
> released 2.1 and 2.3.1 and it fails on all.
[snip]
> With lucene-1.5-rc1 it passes (with mods to make it work with old API)
> see TestMultiSearcherNegativeWildcardQueryExpansionWorksWith151.java
> attachment.

Minor version nits:

- 2.3.2 was released a month ago - I assume you're talking about the trunk?

- There never was a 1.5-rc1 release - do you mean 1.9-rc1?

Steve

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