: > 4) now it's easy to subclass StandardRequestHandler as : > XmlQuerySyntaxRequestHandler or SurroundSyntaxRequestHandler : > just by overriding getQUeryParser. : Blech. All the other ideas are good, and rather orthogonal to : declaring the syntax in the query itself.
yeah ... i didn't say i was particularlay fond of this idea in light of this discussion ... just that it was what i had been thinking before, and would punt on these issues. : Think about it... if we only had *one* base query and no others, : wouldn't it make sense to just add a single parameter called q.syntax? : That's the way I would go. Except we have many queries all over the : place. maybe .. except that was you said: every different query parser you can imagine might have a bunch of complex options you would need to set on it -- forget all the bq, and fq params the the DisMaxHandler supports, assume it was only going to deal with a single "q" -- even if StandardRequestHandler had supported an easy way of replacing the QueryParser with a parm back when i wrote dimax, it still would have made sense to write a new request handler in order to pass in the qf, pf, ps, mm, and tie options the DisMaxQueryParser needs just to make sense of the "q" param -Hoss
