Hi Doug,

I don't understand what you mean by the following:

> For example, if a user searches for q=hot dogs&defType=edismax&qf=title
> body the *query parser* *not* the *analyzer* first turns the query into:

If I have indexAnalyzer and queryAnalyzer in a fieldType that are 100%
identical, the example you provided, does it stand?  If so, why?  Or do you
mean something totally different by "query parser"?

Thanks

Steve


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Doug Turnbull <
dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote:

> *> 1) If the content of indexAnalyzer and queryAnalyzer are exactly the
> same,that's the same as if I have an analyzer only, right?*
> 1) Yes
>
> *>  2) Under the hood, all three are the same thing when it comes to what
> kind*
> *of data and configuration attributes can take, right?*
> 2) Yes. Both take in text and output a token stream.
>
> *>What I'm trying to figure out is this: beside being able to configure a*
>
> *fieldType to have different analyzer setting at index and query time,
> thereis nothing else that's unique about each.*
>
> The only thing to look out for in Solr land is the query parser. Most Solr
> query parsers treat whitespace as meaningful.
>
> For example, if a user searches for q=hot dogs&defType=edismax&qf=title
> body the *query parser* *not* the *analyzer* first turns the query into:
>
> (title:hot title:dog) | (body:hot body:dog)
>
> each word which *then *gets analyzed. This is because the query parser
> tries to be smart and turn "hot dog" into hot OR dog, or more specifically
> making them two must clauses.
>
> This trips quite a few folks up, you can use the field query parser which
> uses the field as a phrase query. Hope that helps
>
>
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Steven White <swhite4...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Looking at Solr's schema.xml, there are three kind of analyzers:
> analyzer,
> > indexAnalyzer and queryAnalyzer.  I have two questions about them:
> >
> > 1) If the content of indexAnalyzer and queryAnalyzer are exactly the
> same,
> > that's the same as if I have an analyzer only, right?
> >
> > 2) Under the hood, all three are the same thing when it comes to what
> kind
> > of data and configuration attributes can take, right?
> >
> > What I'm trying to figure out is this: beside being able to configure a
> > fieldType to have different analyzer setting at index and query time,
> there
> > is nothing else that's unique about each.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve
> >
>

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