On 4/16/2015 7:09 AM, Steven White wrote: > I cannot use escapeQueryChars method because my app interacts with Solr via > REST. > > The summary of your email is: client's must escape search string to prevent > Solr from failing. > > It would be a nice addition to Solr to provide a new query parameter that > tells it to treat the query text as literal text. Doing so, means you > remove the burden placed on clients to understand and escape reserved Solr > / Lucene tokens.
That's a good idea, although we might already have that. I wonder what happens if you include defType=term with your request? That works for edismax, it might work for other query parsers, at least on the q parameter. Thanks, Shawn
