I have thousands of docs in my solr instance. The following doc (maybe others) is causing exception everytime highlight is turned on.
<doc> <str name="topicTitle"> Best buy - Acer Aspire AS5610-2273 - $599. Windows vista, 1 GB RAM </str> </doc> The exception is like this: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -52 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1768) at org.apache.lucene.search.highlight.Highlighter.getBestTextFragments(Highlighter.java:235) at org.apache.solr.util.HighlightingUtils.doHighlighting(HighlightingUtils.java:252) at org.apache.solr.request.StandardRequestHandler.handleRequest(StandardRequestHandler.java:161) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:587) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrServlet.doGet(SolrServlet.java:92) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) This exception only occurs when highlight is on and the above doc is in the response. So for example, these three requests all cause the exception: hl=on&hl.fl=topicTitle&hl.fragsize=0&hl.simple.pre=<em>&hl.simple.post=</em>&q=topicTitle:best+buy;replies desc&start=40&rows=10 hl=on&hl.fl=topicTitle&hl.fragsize=0&hl.simple.pre=<em>&hl.simple.post=</em>&q=topicTitle:acer;replies desc&start=0&rows=10 hl=on&hl.fl=topicTitle&hl.fragsize=0&hl.simple.pre=<em>&hl.simple.post=</em>&q=topicTitle:vista;replies desc&start=60&rows=10 Below is the field definition for topicTitle. What's so special about the above doc? <fieldtype name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> <!--in this example, we will only use synonyms at query time--> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="index_synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/> <!--<filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>--> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0" catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0"/> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> <filter class="solr.EnglishPorterFilterFactory" protected="protwords.txt"/> <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldtype> <field name="topicTitle" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/> -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/highlight-exception-tf3234528.html#a8987980 Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.