: I've got this error when trying to search query like q=+myFiled:"some
: value"*
:
: org.apache.solr.core.SolrException: Query parsing error: Cannot parse
: '+myFiled:"some value"*': '*' or '?' not allowed as first character in
: WildcardQuery
...
...this is where the subtleties of the Lucene QueryParser come into place
... where concepts like "word", "term", and "phrase" all collide. No, you
cannot use wildcards with a quoted phrase query.
: p.s. unexpected - this query works just fine: q=+myFiled:some\ value*
: so I can just escape all control symbols and space - and I'll get what
be carefully ... that's probably not doing what you think it's doing.
it's searching for a documents which contain a single term that starts
with the characters "some value" ... if you indexed with a tokenizer that
splits on whitespace, or does any lowercasing, or does anything
interesting at all in the analyzer, this won't match those docs.
This is generally true for prefix queries, but people might be confused
and think what they are getting with that syntax is a search for something
matching "some" followed by a prefix query for "value*" ... if you indexed
a doc containg "some the values" with a StopFilter to get rid of "the",
that doc won't match your query.
I say this jsut to clarify for people who see this thread: that syntax
trick might work fine for you if you know you have a very special case, but
it probably won't do what many people expect it to.
: But there are no info about space escaping at
:
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters
Hmmm... i'll file bug on that.
-Hoss
