Just throwing this back out there as a bit more official. Finally got around to documenting how I use it. You can also download the plugin jar from github
http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2017/01/23/our-solution-to-solr-multiterm-synonyms/ https://github.com/o19s/match-query-parser Enjoy! GH Issues, Feedback, and PRs welcome -Doug On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 4:32 AM Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks interesting. > > I especially like "we analyze it" and then "we analyze/space-split it > again" as the last tutorial example. > > Regards, > Alex. > P.s. Cool enough for http://solr.cool/ ? > ---- > Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: > http://www.solr-start.com/ > > > On 2 September 2016 at 07:45, Doug Turnbull > <dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > > I wanted to solicit feedback on my query parser, the match query parser ( > > https://github.com/o19s/match-query-parser). It's a work in progress, so > > any thoughts from the community would be welcome. > > > > The point of this query parser is that it's not a query parser! > > > > Instead, it's a way of selecting any analyzer to apply to the query > string. I > > use it for all kinds of things, finely controlling a bigram phrase > search, > > searching with stemmed vs exact variants of the query. > > > > But it's biggest value to me is as a fix for multiterm synonyms. Because > > I'm not giving the user's query to any underlying query parser -- I'm > > always just doing analysis. So I know my selected analyzer will not be > > disrupted by whitespace-based query parsing prior to query analysis. > > > > Those of you also in the Elasticsearch community may be familiar with the > > match query ( > > > https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html > > ). This is similar, except it also lets you select whether to turn the > > resulting tokens into a term query body:(sea\ biscuit likes to fish) or a > > phrase query body:"sea biscuit" likes to fish. See the examples above for > > more. > > > > It's also similar to Solr's field query parser. However the field query > > parser tries to turn the fully analyzed token stream into a phrase query. > > Moreover, the field query parser can only select the field's own > query-time > > analyzer, while the match query parser let's you select an arbitrary > > analyzer. So match has more bells and whistles and acts as a compliment > to > > the field qp. > > > > Thanks for any thoughts, feedback, or critiques > > > > Best, > > -Doug >