Recognizing date inputs

[Jon Baer <jo...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

(Im sure this was asked before but found nothing on markmail) ...  
Wondering if Solr can handle this on its own or if something needs to  
be written ... would like to handle recognizing date inputs to a  
search box for news articles, items such as "August 1","August 1st" or  
"08/01/2008" ... its a bit different than synonym like handling in  
that I have to transform the query to a specific field.  Any thoughts?

Thanks.

- Jon

Re: Recognizing date inputs

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

: (Im sure this was asked before but found nothing on markmail) ... Wondering if
: Solr can handle this on its own or if something needs to be written ... would
: like to handle recognizing date inputs to a search box for news articles,
: items such as "August 1","August 1st" or "08/01/2008" ... its a bit different
: than synonym like handling in that I have to transform the query to a specific
: field.  Any thoughts?

it's been discussed, but nothing's been implemented ... the "right" way to 
do it in my mind is to change the way IndexSchema works so that any 
FieldType class can have analyzers (right now TextField is special) and 
then we can string together together all sorts of interesting TokenFilters 
as part of a query analyzer in front of numeric and date field types -- 
like a series of TokenFilters that check shingles of tokens against 
various SimpleDateFormat patterns, and converts to an internal date if it 
matches ending with a filter that ignores anything which isn't a date.



-Hoss