IllegalArgumentException in AbstractJDBCModel when requesting mostSimilarItems 
for an item without preferences
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                 Key: MAHOUT-367
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-367
             Project: Mahout
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Collaborative Filtering
            Reporter: Sebastian Schelter


I'm using GenericItemBasedRecommender together with MySQLJDBCDataModel for 
generating recommendations for an online shop. Whenever the recommender tries 
to calculate the most similar items for an item without preferences (e.g. a 
brand new product), an IllegalArgumentException is thrown as AbstractJDBCModel 
tries to create a GenericItemPreferenceArray from the empty preference list.

Sample stacktrace:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: size is less than 1
        at 
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.model.GenericItemPreferenceArray.<init>(GenericItemPreferenceArray.java:49)
        at 
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.model.GenericItemPreferenceArray.<init>(GenericItemPreferenceArray.java:56)
        at 
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.model.jdbc.AbstractJDBCDataModel.getPreferencesForItem(AbstractJDBCDataModel.java:441)
        at 
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.recommender.GenericItemBasedRecommender.doMostSimilarItems(GenericItemBasedRecommender.java:169)
        at 
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.recommender.GenericItemBasedRecommender.mostSimilarItems(GenericItemBasedRecommender.java:128)
        at 
org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.recommender.GenericItemBasedRecommender.mostSimilarItems(GenericItemBasedRecommender.java:121)
        at 
de.zalando.recommendation.recommender.cf.TasteRecommenderAdapter.mostSimilarItems(TasteRecommenderAdapter.java:38)
        at 
de.zalando.recommendation.recommender.taste.cache.CachingRecommender.mostSimilarItems(CachingRecommender.java:39)
        at 
de.zalando.recommendation.recoreco.rest.RecommendationsRestController.mostSimilarItems(RecommendationsRestController.java:53)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at 
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.doInvokeMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:710)
        at 
org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:167)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:414)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:402)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:771)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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