Thanks Shawn and all for the insight. This was very helpful. Steve
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 5/14/2015 6:33 AM, Steven White wrote: > > I don't follow. Can you give me an example on how and when to use "uf"? > > The uf parameter controls which fields are allowed in the query string. > If you have "uf=f1 f2" then "q=f3:foo" won't work the way you would > expect. If f3 is in the qf parameter, then it will still be used by the > parser. > > I tried the equivalent of q=f3:foo on my own index with uf set to fields > that did not include that field. When a field is disallowed, but used > in the query, there is no error message. Instead, the data is > interpreted as raw input, so that example would work like "q=f3\:foo" > instead. The colon becomes part of the actual query text. > > Testing shows that uf does *NOT* affect filter queries, only the main > query. I think this is because filter queries default to the lucene > parser, not the parser specified in defType. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
