Re: SolrQuery and escaping special characters

2010-06-18 Thread Lance Norskog
Thank you for the example, Ahmet! Paolo- what you did in choice 'b' does what you want - it escapes the colon in the URI. But Ahmet's example is a better way because it does not have the 'double-escaping' problem that us old Unix types are so familiar with. On 6/18/10, Chris Hostetter wrote: > >

Re: SolrQuery and escaping special characters

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I am not sure how SolrJ behaves regarding "escaping" special characters : [1] in a query string. SolrJ encodes your strings for "transport" -- ie: it handles URL escaping if it's sending hte query in a GET URL -- but id doesn't do "query parser escaping" ... mainly because it has no way of kn

Re: SolrQuery and escaping special characters

2010-06-18 Thread Ahmet Arslan
> My understanding is that SolrJ users are supposed to escape > special characters, therefore (b) is the correct way. > If this is the case, what's the best way to escape a query > string which > might contain field names and URIs in their field values? Easiest thing is to use RawQParserPlugin or