IllegalArgumentException in AbstractJDBCModel when requesting mostSimilarItems for an item without preferences --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.