[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-07-04 Thread Uwe Schindler (JIRA)

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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-1646:
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Mike: After LUCENE-1713, I recreated the QueryParser with javacc (because some 
changes in creation of RangeQueries), but the produced QueryParser.java did not 
contain your changes.

I copied your initCause() lines to QueryParser.jj and then it worked, I commit 
this together with LUCENE-1713.

 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz
 Fix For: 2.9


 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-07-04 Thread Michael McCandless (JIRA)

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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1646:


Woops, thanks Uwe.

 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz
 Fix For: 2.9


 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-06-23 Thread Michael McCandless (JIRA)

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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1646:


I agree Hoss; I'll fix QueryParser to initCause when it catches  rethrows.

 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz

 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-06-18 Thread Hoss Man (JIRA)

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Hoss Man commented on LUCENE-1646:
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As a general rule, code catching an execption and throwing a new exception with 
more details should (almost always) call initCause (unless the new Exception 
has a constructor that takes care of that part) to preserve all of the stack 
history.

Client code that wants to get at the root exception can do so using getCause()

In QueryParser...
{code}
} catch (ParseException tme) {
   // rethrow to include the original query:
   ParseException e = new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
tme.getMessage());
   e.initCause(tme);
   throw e;
}
{code}

In Trejkaz's code, something like...
{code}
} catch (ParseException pexp) {
   for (Throwable t = pexp; null != t; t = t.getCause()) {
  if (t instanceof OurCustomException) {
 takeActionOnCustomException((OurCustomException)t);
  }
  takeActionOnLuceneQueryParserException(exp)
   }
}
{code}

 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz

 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-05-21 Thread Trejkaz (JIRA)

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Trejkaz commented on LUCENE-1646:
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Our improvements are (so far) specific to our subclass of QueryParser, in that 
we use it when getFieldQuery() gets a value which doesn't make sense for the 
given field.

So in a sense, in our case the query was parsed successfully by the parser, but 
the input was invalid within one of the fields.  As such our custom 
ParseException subclass has the field name and field value, but it isn't useful 
to the Lucene project as-is, as the only things throwing it are called from our 
subclass. :-(


 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz

 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-05-20 Thread Michael McCandless (JIRA)

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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1646:


I agree it's bad that the root cause (stack trace) is discarded by the 
exception handler, so we should fix that, but I think adding the query text in 
the exception's message is in fact useful for debugging -- this exception will 
likely get captured  generically logged somewhere, only to be seen later at 
which point you really do want to know which query text caused it.

 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz

 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1646) QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better one

2009-05-20 Thread Trejkaz (JIRA)

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Trejkaz commented on LUCENE-1646:
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I guess that's true if you look at exceptions as a logging mechanism, but in 
our case it's a parsing exception for text coming from the user.  Because of 
this, our use case is for the user to get a useful error message, and it's not 
useful at all if we just tell them their entire query was bad.  Thus we have 
inserted improvements (in our subclass) to make it complain only about the 
fragment of the query which is actually a problem, so they know which part to 
fix.

Related, but is there any way it could at least be reduced to the portion of 
the query which caused the problem?   In a way it would be nice if 
ParseException had methods to get out the problematic fragment (my subclass has 
it...)  I'm guessing this is much easier for exceptions relating to values 
inside fields which otherwise parsed correctly, but a lot harder to do for 
exceptions from the parser proper.



 QueryParser throws new exceptions even if custom parsing logic threw a better 
 one
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 Key: LUCENE-1646
 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1646
 Project: Lucene - Java
  Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 2.4.1
Reporter: Trejkaz

 We have subclassed QueryParser and have various custom fields.  When these 
 fields contain invalid values, we throw a subclass of ParseException which 
 has a more useful message (and also a localised message.)
 Problem is, Lucene's QueryParser is doing this:
 {code}
 catch (ParseException tme) {
 // rethrow to include the original query:
 throw new ParseException(Cannot parse ' +query+ ':  + 
 tme.getMessage());
 }
 {code}
 Thus, our nice and useful ParseException is thrown away, replaced by one with 
 no information about what's actually wrong with the query (it does append 
 getMessage() but that isn't localised.  And it also throws away the 
 underlying cause for the exception.)
 I am about to patch our copy to simply remove these four lines; the caller 
 knows what the query string was (they have to have a copy of it because they 
 are passing it in!) so having it in the error message itself is not useful.  
 Furthermore, when the query string is very big, what the user wants to know 
 is not that the whole query was bad, but which part of it was bad.

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