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Empty phrase search
Hi guys,
Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to search for this using the query language?
Regards,
Minh Kama Yie
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Doug Cutting <cu...@lucene.com>.
I believe that the underlying search and indexing code should correctly
handle terms with zero-length text, although I have never tested this.
However I know of no query parser syntax to generate such terms in a
query. But it should work to use them in a manually constructed query.
Doug
Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to search for this using the query language?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Minh Kama Yie
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write.lock file
Posted by Rob Outar <ro...@ideorlando.org>.
Hello all,
This is the first time I have encountered this in 3 months of testing, the
above file got created, not sure how or when, but every time I try to write
to the index I get an IOException about the indexing being locked. It is
obviously due to that file but what would cause that lock to get created and
not removed?
Let me know.
Thanks,
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Peter Carlson <ca...@bookandhammer.com>.
Hi,
The thought of having an extra field to distinguish this information is
won't really be that much extra work (maybe 10 min).
You will probably have to create your own Lucene Document type anyway,
or modify one that already exists such as the HTML document. This
information about empty fields could easily be added.
As far as if it's a hack, I would say no way. Any other search engine
has to track this information some how (nothing is free) maybe they
have a hidden field that describes this. In Lucene you'll know how it's
all built and have lots of flexibility.
Anyway, if you put it in your own Document, you can have ultimate
control as to what constitutes an "empty string".
It would be good to hear which way you go and why. It's always good to
hear why people went with one solution over another. It gives us at
Lucene feedback about what matters to people.
--Peter
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 11:10 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> Yep, thought of that and having argued it out with the lead on this, it
> would be suitable in my opinion but even I would concede that it is a
> hack
> in our case since there is no limit to the variety of characters that
> could
> appear as the value for the field which may be an empty string. Hence
> there
> isn't the 100% guarantee that there will never be the circumstance
> when this
> special character or String of characters we choose to represent empty
> fields will appear as a valid value.
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Minh Kama Yie <mi...@nuix.com.au>.
Unfortunately bulletproof is exactly what we need :)
But I agree that in the right circumstance this solution would be ideal.
Thanks for all your help guys :)
Looking at Doug's suggestion of constructing the query manually...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua O'Madadhain" <jm...@ics.uci.edu>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> Minh:
>
> Assuming that the fields aren't binary (and thus capable of having any
> arbitrary string in them), you should be able to come up with a short
> string that will never appear in the field ("emptystring", "xyxyqu23",
> etc.) even if there is no single character that would work as a marker.
> As an extra layer of insurance, you could throw out any documents whose
> field only contained that string _as a substring_.
>
> This may not be completely bulletproof, but it's pretty close. :)
>
> Joshua
>
> jmadden@ics.uci.edu...Obscurium Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
> Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall
> It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson
> My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any
organization.
>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
>
> > Yep, thought of that and having argued it out with the lead on this, it
> > would be suitable in my opinion but even I would concede that it is a
hack
> > in our case since there is no limit to the variety of characters that
could
> > appear as the value for the field which may be an empty string. Hence
there
> > isn't the 100% guarantee that there will never be the circumstance when
this
> > special character or String of characters we choose to represent empty
> > fields will appear as a valid value.
> >
> > Thanks anyway though.
> >
> > Minh
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joshua O'Madadhain" <jm...@ics.uci.edu>
> > To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> >
> >
> > > Minh:
> > >
> > > Why not just use a special character or string (one that won't appear
in a
> > > non-empty field) to represent an empty field? It doesn't have to
appear
> > > in the user interface, if that's a concern; you could convert a query
> > > including "FieldA:NULL" (or whatever) into a query containing
> > > "FieldA:emptyfield" automatically.
> > >
> > > This allows you to finesse the entire issue of adding something to
> > > Lucene--which may be for the best anyway, since this is really just a
> > > special case of looking for fields whose contents have a specific
> > > characteristic.
> > >
> > > Good luck--
> > >
> > > Joshua O'Madadhain
> > >
> > > jmadden@ics.uci.edu...Obscurium Per
Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
> > > Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician,
Philosopher-At-Tall
> > > It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill
Watterson
> > > My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any
> > organization.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for that Peter.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately I'm not looking for "all" documents but rather
documents
> > where
> > > > the fields can be empty.
> > > > Hence using the universal field wouldn't quite work.
> > > > The "empty:true" approach is interesting however it effectively
doubles
> > the
> > > > number of indexable fields for a document.
> > > >
> > > > Need to assess whether or not we want to support this feature I
guess.
> > > >
> > > > Currently, considering Lucene's architecture this feature needs to
be
> > > > inherently supported rather than worked around with various fields I
> > think
> > > > for it to be used/done properly...
> > > >
> > > > Would anyone be able to point me in the general direction of where
to
> > look
> > > > in the Lucene code to attempt this?
> > > > Hopefully this way I can give a proper cost/benefit analysis as to
> > whether
> > > > or not to support this feature...and if all goes well, release
something
> > > > back for the great work you guys do....
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Peter Carlson" <ca...@bookandhammer.com>
> > > > To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:25 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I don't think so.
> > > > >
> > > > > One approach to look for everything, or not something is to add a
> > field
> > > > > to each document which is a constant value. Like a field named
exists
> > > > > and a value of true.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then you can do search like
> > > > >
> > > > > exists:true NOT microsoft
> > > > >
> > > > > This will find all documents without the term microsoft in them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Just to have it find documents with nothing might be a little
tricky.
> > > > > You might want to put a field in the document which indicates the
size
> > > > > or something like that. Or just create an empty field and look for
> > > > >
> > > > > empty:true
> > > > >
> > > > > I hope this rambling helps
> > > > >
> > > > > --Peter
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to
> > > > > > search for this using the query language?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Minh Kama Yie
> > > > > >
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Joshua O'Madadhain <jm...@ics.uci.edu>.
Minh:
Assuming that the fields aren't binary (and thus capable of having any
arbitrary string in them), you should be able to come up with a short
string that will never appear in the field ("emptystring", "xyxyqu23",
etc.) even if there is no single character that would work as a marker.
As an extra layer of insurance, you could throw out any documents whose
field only contained that string _as a substring_.
This may not be completely bulletproof, but it's pretty close. :)
Joshua
jmadden@ics.uci.edu...Obscurium Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall
It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson
My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any organization.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> Yep, thought of that and having argued it out with the lead on this, it
> would be suitable in my opinion but even I would concede that it is a hack
> in our case since there is no limit to the variety of characters that could
> appear as the value for the field which may be an empty string. Hence there
> isn't the 100% guarantee that there will never be the circumstance when this
> special character or String of characters we choose to represent empty
> fields will appear as a valid value.
>
> Thanks anyway though.
>
> Minh
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua O'Madadhain" <jm...@ics.uci.edu>
> To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
>
>
> > Minh:
> >
> > Why not just use a special character or string (one that won't appear in a
> > non-empty field) to represent an empty field? It doesn't have to appear
> > in the user interface, if that's a concern; you could convert a query
> > including "FieldA:NULL" (or whatever) into a query containing
> > "FieldA:emptyfield" automatically.
> >
> > This allows you to finesse the entire issue of adding something to
> > Lucene--which may be for the best anyway, since this is really just a
> > special case of looking for fields whose contents have a specific
> > characteristic.
> >
> > Good luck--
> >
> > Joshua O'Madadhain
> >
> > jmadden@ics.uci.edu...Obscurium Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
> > Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall
> > It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson
> > My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any
> organization.
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for that Peter.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I'm not looking for "all" documents but rather documents
> where
> > > the fields can be empty.
> > > Hence using the universal field wouldn't quite work.
> > > The "empty:true" approach is interesting however it effectively doubles
> the
> > > number of indexable fields for a document.
> > >
> > > Need to assess whether or not we want to support this feature I guess.
> > >
> > > Currently, considering Lucene's architecture this feature needs to be
> > > inherently supported rather than worked around with various fields I
> think
> > > for it to be used/done properly...
> > >
> > > Would anyone be able to point me in the general direction of where to
> look
> > > in the Lucene code to attempt this?
> > > Hopefully this way I can give a proper cost/benefit analysis as to
> whether
> > > or not to support this feature...and if all goes well, release something
> > > back for the great work you guys do....
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Peter Carlson" <ca...@bookandhammer.com>
> > > To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:25 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> > >
> > >
> > > > I don't think so.
> > > >
> > > > One approach to look for everything, or not something is to add a
> field
> > > > to each document which is a constant value. Like a field named exists
> > > > and a value of true.
> > > >
> > > > Then you can do search like
> > > >
> > > > exists:true NOT microsoft
> > > >
> > > > This will find all documents without the term microsoft in them.
> > > >
> > > > Just to have it find documents with nothing might be a little tricky.
> > > > You might want to put a field in the document which indicates the size
> > > > or something like that. Or just create an empty field and look for
> > > >
> > > > empty:true
> > > >
> > > > I hope this rambling helps
> > > >
> > > > --Peter
> > > >
> > > > On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > >
> > > > > Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to
> > > > > search for this using the query language?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Minh Kama Yie
> > > > >
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Minh Kama Yie <mi...@nuix.com.au>.
Joshua,
Yep, thought of that and having argued it out with the lead on this, it
would be suitable in my opinion but even I would concede that it is a hack
in our case since there is no limit to the variety of characters that could
appear as the value for the field which may be an empty string. Hence there
isn't the 100% guarantee that there will never be the circumstance when this
special character or String of characters we choose to represent empty
fields will appear as a valid value.
Thanks anyway though.
Minh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua O'Madadhain" <jm...@ics.uci.edu>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> Minh:
>
> Why not just use a special character or string (one that won't appear in a
> non-empty field) to represent an empty field? It doesn't have to appear
> in the user interface, if that's a concern; you could convert a query
> including "FieldA:NULL" (or whatever) into a query containing
> "FieldA:emptyfield" automatically.
>
> This allows you to finesse the entire issue of adding something to
> Lucene--which may be for the best anyway, since this is really just a
> special case of looking for fields whose contents have a specific
> characteristic.
>
> Good luck--
>
> Joshua O'Madadhain
>
> jmadden@ics.uci.edu...Obscurium Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
> Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall
> It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson
> My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any
organization.
>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that Peter.
> >
> > Unfortunately I'm not looking for "all" documents but rather documents
where
> > the fields can be empty.
> > Hence using the universal field wouldn't quite work.
> > The "empty:true" approach is interesting however it effectively doubles
the
> > number of indexable fields for a document.
> >
> > Need to assess whether or not we want to support this feature I guess.
> >
> > Currently, considering Lucene's architecture this feature needs to be
> > inherently supported rather than worked around with various fields I
think
> > for it to be used/done properly...
> >
> > Would anyone be able to point me in the general direction of where to
look
> > in the Lucene code to attempt this?
> > Hopefully this way I can give a proper cost/benefit analysis as to
whether
> > or not to support this feature...and if all goes well, release something
> > back for the great work you guys do....
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Carlson" <ca...@bookandhammer.com>
> > To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> >
> >
> > > I don't think so.
> > >
> > > One approach to look for everything, or not something is to add a
field
> > > to each document which is a constant value. Like a field named exists
> > > and a value of true.
> > >
> > > Then you can do search like
> > >
> > > exists:true NOT microsoft
> > >
> > > This will find all documents without the term microsoft in them.
> > >
> > > Just to have it find documents with nothing might be a little tricky.
> > > You might want to put a field in the document which indicates the size
> > > or something like that. Or just create an empty field and look for
> > >
> > > empty:true
> > >
> > > I hope this rambling helps
> > >
> > > --Peter
> > >
> > > On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to
> > > > search for this using the query language?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Minh Kama Yie
> > > >
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Joshua O'Madadhain <jm...@ics.uci.edu>.
Minh:
Why not just use a special character or string (one that won't appear in a
non-empty field) to represent an empty field? It doesn't have to appear
in the user interface, if that's a concern; you could convert a query
including "FieldA:NULL" (or whatever) into a query containing
"FieldA:emptyfield" automatically.
This allows you to finesse the entire issue of adding something to
Lucene--which may be for the best anyway, since this is really just a
special case of looking for fields whose contents have a specific
characteristic.
Good luck--
Joshua O'Madadhain
jmadden@ics.uci.edu...Obscurium Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden
Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall
It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson
My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any organization.
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> Thanks for that Peter.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not looking for "all" documents but rather documents where
> the fields can be empty.
> Hence using the universal field wouldn't quite work.
> The "empty:true" approach is interesting however it effectively doubles the
> number of indexable fields for a document.
>
> Need to assess whether or not we want to support this feature I guess.
>
> Currently, considering Lucene's architecture this feature needs to be
> inherently supported rather than worked around with various fields I think
> for it to be used/done properly...
>
> Would anyone be able to point me in the general direction of where to look
> in the Lucene code to attempt this?
> Hopefully this way I can give a proper cost/benefit analysis as to whether
> or not to support this feature...and if all goes well, release something
> back for the great work you guys do....
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Carlson" <ca...@bookandhammer.com>
> To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
>
>
> > I don't think so.
> >
> > One approach to look for everything, or not something is to add a field
> > to each document which is a constant value. Like a field named exists
> > and a value of true.
> >
> > Then you can do search like
> >
> > exists:true NOT microsoft
> >
> > This will find all documents without the term microsoft in them.
> >
> > Just to have it find documents with nothing might be a little tricky.
> > You might want to put a field in the document which indicates the size
> > or something like that. Or just create an empty field and look for
> >
> > empty:true
> >
> > I hope this rambling helps
> >
> > --Peter
> >
> > On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to
> > > search for this using the query language?
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Minh Kama Yie
> > >
> > > This message is intended only for the named recipient.
> > > If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that
> > > disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Minh Kama Yie <mi...@nuix.com.au>.
Thanks for that Peter.
Unfortunately I'm not looking for "all" documents but rather documents where
the fields can be empty.
Hence using the universal field wouldn't quite work.
The "empty:true" approach is interesting however it effectively doubles the
number of indexable fields for a document.
Need to assess whether or not we want to support this feature I guess.
Currently, considering Lucene's architecture this feature needs to be
inherently supported rather than worked around with various fields I think
for it to be used/done properly...
Would anyone be able to point me in the general direction of where to look
in the Lucene code to attempt this?
Hopefully this way I can give a proper cost/benefit analysis as to whether
or not to support this feature...and if all goes well, release something
back for the great work you guys do....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Carlson" <ca...@bookandhammer.com>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Empty phrase search
> I don't think so.
>
> One approach to look for everything, or not something is to add a field
> to each document which is a constant value. Like a field named exists
> and a value of true.
>
> Then you can do search like
>
> exists:true NOT microsoft
>
> This will find all documents without the term microsoft in them.
>
> Just to have it find documents with nothing might be a little tricky.
> You might want to put a field in the document which indicates the size
> or something like that. Or just create an empty field and look for
>
> empty:true
>
> I hope this rambling helps
>
> --Peter
>
> On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to
> > search for this using the query language?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Minh Kama Yie
> >
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Re: Empty phrase search
Posted by Peter Carlson <ca...@bookandhammer.com>.
I don't think so.
One approach to look for everything, or not something is to add a field
to each document which is a constant value. Like a field named exists
and a value of true.
Then you can do search like
exists:true NOT microsoft
This will find all documents without the term microsoft in them.
Just to have it find documents with nothing might be a little tricky.
You might want to put a field in the document which indicates the size
or something like that. Or just create an empty field and look for
empty:true
I hope this rambling helps
--Peter
On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Minh Kama Yie wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just wondering if lucene indexes empty strings and if so, how to
> search for this using the query language?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Minh Kama Yie
>
> This message is intended only for the named recipient.
> If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that
> disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action
> in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly
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