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Richard Zowalla updated OPENNLP-1929:
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Summary: RegEx removal part 7: BasicContextGenerator splits on the
separator as a regular expression (was: BasicContextGenerator splits on the
separator as a regular expression)
> RegEx removal part 7: BasicContextGenerator splits on the separator as a
> regular expression
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> Key: OPENNLP-1929
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-1929
> Project: OpenNLP
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Machine Learning
> Reporter: Kristian Rickert
> Assignee: Kristian Rickert
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0
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> Time Spent: 40m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> {{BasicContextGenerator(String sep)}} documents its argument as a "separator
> character", but {{getContext}} calls {{String.split(separator)}}, which
> compiles the argument as a regular expression on every call.
> Consequences for a caller who follows the Javadoc:
> * {{"|"}}, {{"."}}, {{"+"}}, {{"*"}}, {{"?"}} split on every character or on
> nothing.
> * {{"("}} or {{"["}} throw {{PatternSyntaxException}} at prediction time, not
> at construction.
> * An empty separator splits the input into single characters.
> * If an application takes the separator from configuration, a crafted pattern
> is re-evaluated on every context string, which is a backtracking exposure.
> No code in the repository calls the separator constructor; it arrived with
> the maxent modularization (OPENNLP-1740) and has no test.
> Fix: split on the literal separator with a cursor scan, keeping
> {{String.split}} trailing-empty semantics; reject an empty separator with
> {{IllegalArgumentException}} at construction; state in the Javadoc that the
> separator is literal. Tests: default space, a metacharacter separator, a
> multi-character separator, leading and trailing separators, empty and null
> separator.
> Compatibility: external code that intentionally passes a pattern such as
> {{\s+}} relied on undocumented behavior; 3.0 is the release to correct it.
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