Re: field based boosting

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

:       To be brief, looking at query string,
: 1) if there are no fields supplied as part of the query, I need to
: search for the input-query terms in a set of default field list
: including support for field boosting.
: 
: 2) If the user has supplied some field name as part of the query then
: I do some other modifications to the query like query expansion, etc.

...you are a bit vague on what the "other modifications" are, so i'm not 
sure if it will help, but there is a new experimental "edismax" parser in 
the trunk right now that aims to support the same types of things as 
"dismax" but with some extra bells and whistles (like: if the query string 
contains "xxx:yyy" and "xxx" is a real field then just search for "yyy" in 
that field, not in all the qf fields)

So you might check it out.

barring that...

: judged in query parser ( as far as I know ), which might be the right
: way of providing both of above features.

...you can write a custom QParserPlugin that does exactly what you want.



-Hoss