[jira] Commented: (LUCENE-1122) queryparser whitespace escaping and documentation?

["Mark Miller (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-1122:
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Its because a term is madeup of TERM_START_CHAR + TERM_CHAR*, both of which can contain an ESCAPED_CHAR, which is an escape, '\', followed by anything. So backslash space matches ESCAPED_CHAR, and the space is eaten as part of the term rather than being used as a whitespace break.

We could change it, or it sounds like its fine to leave it. If we leave it, I guess we can doc it and close this issue. Give me your preference and I'll be happy to do it.

> queryparser whitespace escaping and documentation?
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1122
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1122
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: QueryParser, Website
>            Reporter: Hoss Man
>
> as noted in this solr thread...
> http://www.nabble.com/PhraseQuery-and-WildcardQuery-to14503609.html#a14503609
> ...it's possible to escape a whitespace character in the value of a term or prefix query by using a backslash so that the QueryParser will not treat it as "special" (ie: won't split on it when dividing the input into chunks for analysis).
> at a minimum, this should be noted here...
> http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters
> ...but it got me wondering...
>    * is this a side effect of something else, or will QueryParser really respect this everywhere? even in field names? (i haven't tested) ... i think this is a result of QueryParser allowing you to escape any character even if it isn't "special" to the syntax
>    * shouldn't a space be considered "special" since it does trigger certain behavior? ... so shouldn't QueryParser.escape(String) escape spaces as well as the other special characters?

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