Re: Field Boosting with q.alt parameter Query

2009-03-03 Thread dabboo
Hi Eric, Thanks for all the inputs you have given. They are really helpful. I am able to achieve the field boosting * wildcard with dismax. For this, I had to make code changes in DisjunctionMaxQueryParser sub class in SolrPluginUtils class. Thanks, Amit Garg Erik Hatcher wrote: > > Amit, > >

Re: Field Boosting with q.alt parameter Query

2009-03-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
Amit, If you use the lucene query parser, you only get a q parameter. All the other parameters, such as qf and bq, are specific to the dismax query parser. If you want to use the lucene query parser for wildcard capability, you have to manually build the query across multiple fields and

Re: Field Boosting with q.alt parameter Query

2009-03-03 Thread dabboo
Hi, I tried this url but it threw nullpointer exception. Also, I am having underscores in the field name like ProductUrl_s etc. I also debug the query which gets formed with q.alt, it doesnt calculate the scores of the documents and hence doesnt support field boosting. Please suggest me as how I

Re: Field Boosting with q.alt parameter Query

2009-03-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:35 AM, dabboo wrote: Is there any way, we can implement field boosting with q.alt parameter query. I would appreciate if somebody can suggest if there is any workaround for the same. The question really is not about q.alt specifically, but about query parsers. With t