TooManyClauses with MultiTermQueries

[Eric Louvard <er...@hauk-sasko.de>]

Hello, in working with Lucene since several years.
One of my biggest problem was the unability of lucene to search with 
wildcard. Also I have develop my own MultiTermQueries.

Now there's a standard class for this, but you'll allways become an 
exception if your search is to generic, 'a*' for exemple.
I can't solve this problem, but I making it acceptable with the follwing 
allgorithm:
- getting all possible terms.
- sort them (actualy with the length difference beetween search term (if 
you search 'TooMany*' then 'TooManyDog' has a better range than 
'TooManyClauses')).
- get the allowed (I want my BooleanQuery not to overwrite 100 terms for 
example).
- search this.

 for this Query I can call call:
.getWarnnigs() give me a string with a description of the limitation 
("Have found 265654 terms for you search please be more precise.")
.getTermsList() the list of all searched terms (usefull too for the user).

So I can allways have a result. Mostly, with the sorting I am getting 
the searched term (You can use another sort). I can limit maxClauseCount 
to few values (avoid out of memory and better performance).

Hope this can help someone. I think it would be a nice feature to 
implements in lucene.


PS: sorry for my poor english.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen

i. A. Éric Louvard
HAUK & SASKO Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Zettachring 2
D-70567 Stuttgart

Phone: +49 7 11 7 25 89 - 19
Fax: +49 7 11 7 25 89 - 50
E-Mail: eric.louvard@hauk-sasko.de
www: www.hauk-sasko.de





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RE: TooManyClauses with MultiTermQueries

[Silvy Mathews <sm...@funmobility.com>]

Hi All,
I also need to resolve this issue. What is the best way to catch this exception?
Thanks
Mathews

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Louvard [mailto:eric.louvard@hauk-sasko.de] 
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:36 AM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: TooManyClauses with MultiTermQueries

Hello, in working with Lucene since several years.
One of my biggest problem was the unability of lucene to search with 
wildcard. Also I have develop my own MultiTermQueries.

Now there's a standard class for this, but you'll allways become an 
exception if your search is to generic, 'a*' for exemple.
I can't solve this problem, but I making it acceptable with the follwing 
allgorithm:
- getting all possible terms.
- sort them (actualy with the length difference beetween search term (if 
you search 'TooMany*' then 'TooManyDog' has a better range than 
'TooManyClauses')).
- get the allowed (I want my BooleanQuery not to overwrite 100 terms for 
example).
- search this.

 for this Query I can call call:
.getWarnnigs() give me a string with a description of the limitation 
("Have found 265654 terms for you search please be more precise.")
.getTermsList() the list of all searched terms (usefull too for the user).

So I can allways have a result. Mostly, with the sorting I am getting 
the searched term (You can use another sort). I can limit maxClauseCount 
to few values (avoid out of memory and better performance).

Hope this can help someone. I think it would be a nice feature to 
implements in lucene.


PS: sorry for my poor english.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen

i. A. Éric Louvard
HAUK & SASKO Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Zettachring 2
D-70567 Stuttgart

Phone: +49 7 11 7 25 89 - 19
Fax: +49 7 11 7 25 89 - 50
E-Mail: eric.louvard@hauk-sasko.de
www: www.hauk-sasko.de





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