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Shai Erera closed LUCENE-1418.
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    Resolution: Not A Problem

I don't think QP should support 'null' passed as the default field, and I doubt 
if people really pass null as the default field. True, we can add a null check 
to the ctor, but due to long inactivity, I think it's not a problem people hit, 
so closing.

> QueryParser can throw NullPointerException during parsing of some queries in 
> case if default field passed to constructor is null
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1418
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1418
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: QueryParser
>    Affects Versions: 2.4
>         Environment: CentOS 5.2 (probably any applies)
>            Reporter: Alexei Dets
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In case if QueryParser was constructed using "QueryParser(String f,  Analyzer 
> a)" constructor and f equals null then QueryParser can fail with 
> NullPointerException during parsing of some queries that _does_ contain field 
> name but have unbalanced parenthesis.
> Example 1:
> Query:  field:(expr1) expr2)
> Result:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at org.apache.lucene.index.Term.<init>(Term.java:50)
>       at org.apache.lucene.index.Term.<init>(Term.java:36)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.getFieldQuery(QueryParser.java:543)
>       at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Term(QueryParser.java:1324)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Clause(QueryParser.java:1211)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Query(QueryParser.java:1168)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.TopLevelQuery(QueryParser.java:1128)
>       at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(QueryParser.java:170)
> Example2:
> Query:  field:(expr1) "expr2")
> Result:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at org.apache.lucene.index.Term.<init>(Term.java:50)
>       at org.apache.lucene.index.Term.<init>(Term.java:36)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.getFieldQuery(QueryParser.java:543)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.getFieldQuery(QueryParser.java:612)
>       at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Term(QueryParser.java:1459)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Clause(QueryParser.java:1211)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Query(QueryParser.java:1168)
>       at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.TopLevelQuery(QueryParser.java:1128)
>       at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(QueryParser.java:170)
> Workaround: pass in constructor empty string as a default field name - in 
> this case QueryParser.parse method will throw ParseException (expected result 
> because query string is wrong) instead of NullPointerException.
> It is not obvious to me how to fix this so I'll describe my usecase, may be 
> I'm doing something completely wrong.
> Basically I have a set of per-field queries entered by user and need to 
> programmatically construct (after some preprocessing) one real Lucene query 
> combined from these user-entered per-field subqueries.
> To achieve this I basically do the following (simplified a bit):
> QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(null, analyzer); // I'll always provide 
> a field name in a query string as it is different each time and I don't have 
> any default
> BooleanQuery query = new BooleanQuery();
> Query subQuery1 = parser.parse(field1 + ":(" + queryString1 + ')');
> query.add(subQuery1, operator1); // operator = BooleanClause.Occur.MUST, 
> BooleanClause.Occur.MUST_NOT or BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD
> Query subQuery2 = parser.parse(field2 + ":(" + queryString2 + ')');
> query.add(subQuery2, operator2); 
> Query subQuery3 = parser.parse(field3 + ":(" + queryString3 + ')');
> query.add(subQuery3, operator3); 
> ...
> IMHO either QueryParser constructor should be changed to throw 
> NullPointerException/InvalidArgumentException in case of null field passed 
> (and API documentation updated) or QueryParser.parse behavior should be fixed 
> to correctly throw ParseException instead of NullPointerException. Also IMHO 
> of a great help can be _public_ setField/getField methods of QueryParser 
> (that set/get field), this can help in use cases like my:
> QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(null, analyzer); // or add constructor 
> with analyzer _only_ for such cases
> BooleanQuery query = new BooleanQuery();
> parser.setField(field1);
> Query subQuery1 = parser.parse(queryString1);
> query.add(subQuery1, operator1);
> parser.setField(field2);
> Query subQuery2 = parser.parse(queryString2);
> query.add(subQuery2, operator2); 
> ...

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