Hi, You need to escape special chars with \ and if you are sending it in URL you can URL encode it, but that is URL related thing not Solr.
Here is the list of Lucene characters that need to be escaped: http://lucene.apache.org/core/7_1_0/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html#Escaping_Special_Characters <http://lucene.apache.org/core/7_1_0/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html#Escaping_Special_Characters> HTH, Emir -- Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/ > On 6 Dec 2017, at 10:33, Roopesh Uniyal <roopesh.uni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Jan. It must be a late night. Not sure what I was thinking. > > I provided *%5C%28DVeto1%5C%29* but still not able to get the search results > > I also have a situation where I have to search something like *(ID#DVeto2)* > and I am providing *%5C%28ID%23DVeto2%5C%2*9 and still not able to get the > resultsets. > > Its not throwing any error but no result found in these two scenarios. > Although we know there should be some records. > > Am I missing anything? > > Thanks! > > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:13 AM, < > jan.christopher.schluchtmann-...@continental-corporation.com> wrote: > >> hmm ... it seems, you are using XML/HTML-encoding, but you need >> HTTP-encoding, which looks like this: >> >> >> ␣ ! " # $ % & ' ( ) >> * + , - . / : ; < = >>> ? @ [ \ ] { | } >> >> %20 %21 %22 %23 %24 %25 %26 %27 %28 %29 >> %2A %2B %2C %2D %2E %2F %3A %3B %3C %3D >> %3E %3F %40 %5B %5C %5D %7B %7C %7D >> >> >> good luck! :) >> >> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/ With kind regards >> >> Jan Schluchtmann >> Systems Engineering Cluster Instruments >> VW Group >> Continental Automotive GmbH >> Division Interior >> ID S3 RM >> VDO-Strasse 1, 64832 Babenhausen, Germany >> >> Telefon/Phone: +49 6073 12-4346 >> Telefax: +49 6073 12-79-4346 >> >> >> >> Von: Roopesh Uniyal <roopesh.uni...@gmail.com> >> An: solr-user@lucene.apache.org, >> Datum: 06.12.2017 09:57 >> Betreff: Issue while searching with escape characters >> >> >> >> Hello I am searching Solr 6 via http call by providing a "UserID". >> >> Its just that the data is in the format of (DVeto1) >> >> So, in my call I have to provide parenthesis but since its a special >> character I need to provide escape also. Looks like its not working >> >> Provided the search string over http like these but none worked - >> >> (DVeto1) >> \(DVeto1\) >> >> Since this is not working I am sure I am missing something. Will >> appreciate >> your inputs. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >>
