Question on QueryParser.parse()

[Terence Lai <tl...@trekspace.com>]

I am trying to create a query object using the QueryParser for the search word "A+". However, it always returns a Null object back. My code is stated below:

    Query q = QueryParser.parse("A\+", "myIndex", new StandardAnalyzer());

I've also tried the following query strings, but none of them returns the query object back.

    myIndex: A\+
    myIndex: "A\+"
    myIndex: "A+"

Does anyone know the solution?

By the way, I am using Lucence 1.4 RC3.

Thanks,
Terence






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Re: Question on QueryParser.parse()

[Peter M Cipollone <lu...@bihvhar.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terence Lai" <tl...@trekspace.com>
To: "'Lucene Users List'" <lu...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:12 PM
Subject: Question on QueryParser.parse()


> I am trying to create a query object using the QueryParser for the search
word "A+". However, it always returns a Null object back. My code is stated
below:
>
>     Query q = QueryParser.parse("A\+", "myIndex", new StandardAnalyzer());
>
> I've also tried the following query strings, but none of them returns the
query object back.
>
>     myIndex: A\+
>     myIndex: "A\+"
>     myIndex: "A+"
>
> Does anyone know the solution?

StandardAnalyzer is what's stopping you.  It will discard the letter "A"
because of its StopFilter, and it will discard the "+" because it considers
that character to be noise.  You have a few choices:

1. Build the query manually.

Query q = new TermQuery(new Term("myIndex", "A+");

This will only work if you actually indexed the term "A+" (i.e. if you did
not use StandardAnalyzer when you indexed the docs).

2. Use a different analyzer.  In this case, the only stock analyzer that
will work is the WhitespaceAnalyzer.

Bear in mind that if you switch analyzers you will have to reindex your
content with your new choice of analyzer.  If you need to search unusual
terms like this, you might want to make your own Analyzer out of a
WhitespaceTokenizer and a LowerCaseFilter, as follows:

class LcWsAnalyzer extends Analyzer {
  public TokenStream tokenStream(String fieldName, Reader reader) {
    return new LowerCaseFilter(new WhitespaceTokenizer(reader));
  }
}

When the above Analyzer is used,  QueryParser.parse() returns

myIndex:a+

as the term it will search for.

> By the way, I am using Lucence 1.4 RC3.
>
> Thanks,
> Terence
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