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neo4j: lucene ParseException: cannot parse 'bbox'

I am using ruby with neography backed by neo4j with spatial extension. The following error occured:

org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse 'bbox:[11.6,11.4,47.1,48.2]': Encountered \" \"]\" \"] \"\" at line 1, column 25.\nWas expecting one of:\n \"TO\" ...\n ...\n ...\n " (Neography::BadInputException)

This is the query:

start n = node:road_nodes('bbox:[11.6,11.4,47.1,48.2]') return n

The same error occurs if I put the query in the web-frontend of neo4j: (Neo.DatabaseError.Statement.ExecutionFailure)

with the error-message like above:

org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse 'bbox:[11.6,11.4,47.1,48.2]': Encountered " "]" "] "" at line 1, column 25. Was expecting one of: "TO" ... ... ...

Solution

  • Answer to my own question:

    This error occurs, when there is no spatial index.

    In my case I forgot to create the spatial index after I reset the whole database.

    So the solution to this "parse error" is to simply create the spatial index.