From dc778659fb5e96d87f6e3eafff05e01fbb39322c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: orbiter <orbiter@6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 15:48:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed problem with time-out during result joint which caused
 OR behavior instead of AND beahvior

git-svn-id: https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/yacy/trunk@1167 6c8d7289-2bf4-0310-a012-ef5d649a1542
---
 source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSearchQuery.java     | 3 ++-
 source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexEntity.java | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSearchQuery.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSearchQuery.java
index 1aca17d61..0652f158f 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSearchQuery.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaSearchQuery.java
@@ -128,8 +128,9 @@ public final class plasmaSearchQuery {
         }
         
         // the string is clean now, but we must generate a set out of it
-        final String[] a = words.split(" ");
         final TreeSet query = new TreeSet(kelondroMSetTools.fastStringComparator);
+        if (words.length() == 0) return query; // split returns always one element
+        final String[] a = words.split(" ");
         for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { query.add(a[i]); }
         return query;
     }
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexEntity.java b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexEntity.java
index c3f614451..c6508bb6b 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexEntity.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/plasma/plasmaWordIndexEntity.java
@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ public final class plasmaWordIndexEntity {
     
     public static plasmaWordIndexEntity joinEntities(Set entities, long time) throws IOException {
         
+    		// big problem here: there cannot be a time-out for join, since a time-out will leave the joined set too big.
+    		// this will result in a OR behavior of the search instead of an AND behavior
+    	
         long stamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
         
         // order entities by their size
@@ -339,12 +342,12 @@ public final class plasmaWordIndexEntity {
         // we now must pairwise build up a conjunction of these sets
         Long k = (Long) map.firstKey(); // the smallest, which means, the one with the least entries
         plasmaWordIndexEntity searchA, searchB, searchResult = (plasmaWordIndexEntity) map.remove(k);
-        while ((map.size() > 0) && (searchResult.size() > 0) && (time > 0)) {
+        while ((map.size() > 0) && (searchResult.size() > 0)) {
             // take the first element of map which is a result and combine it with result
             k = (Long) map.firstKey(); // the next smallest...
             time -= (System.currentTimeMillis() - stamp); stamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
-        searchA = searchResult;
-        searchB = (plasmaWordIndexEntity) map.remove(k);
+            searchA = searchResult;
+            searchB = (plasmaWordIndexEntity) map.remove(k);
             searchResult = plasmaWordIndexEntity.joinConstructive(searchA, searchB, 2 * time / (map.size() + 1));
         // close the input files/structures
         if (searchA != searchResult) searchA.close();