Re: Searching with Wildcards

2008-10-02 Thread Chris Hostetter
: What would be the scope of the work to implement Erik's suggestion, I : would have to ask my boss, but I think we would then contribute the code : back to Solr. The QParser modifications would be fairly straight forward -- adding some setters to SolrQueryParser to set booleans telling when to

Re: Searching with Wildcards

2008-09-24 Thread Brian Carmalt
Hello all, Sorry I have taken so long to get back to Eriks reply, I used the technique of inserting a ? before the * to get at prototype working. However, if 1.3 does not support this anymore, then I really need to look into alternatives. What would be the scope of the work to implement Erik's

Re: Searching with Wildcards

2008-09-17 Thread Mark Miller
Alas no, the queryparser now uses an unhighlightable constantscore query. I'd personally like to make it work at the Lucene level, but not sure how thats going to proceed. The tradeoff is that you won't have max boolean clause issues and wildcard searches should be faster. It is a bummer though

Re: Searching with Wildcards

2008-09-17 Thread dojolava
Hi, I have another question on the wildcard problem: In the previous Solr releases there was a workaround to highlight wildcard queries using the StandardRequestHandler by adding a ? in between: e.g. hou?* would highlight house. But this is not working anymore. Is there maybe another workaround?

Re: Searching with Wildcards

2008-09-02 Thread Erik Hatcher
Probably your best bet is to create a new QParser(Plugin) that uses Lucene's QueryParser directly. We probably should have that available anyway in the core, just so folks coming from Lucene Java have the same QueryParser. Erik On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Brian Carmalt wrote: He