On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Sagar Khetkade <sagar.khetk...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> > There is a strange issue while querying on the Solr indexes. If my query > contains the special characters like [ ] !<> etc. It is throwing the query > parse exception. From my application interface I am able to handle the > special characters but the issue is while the document which I am going to > index contains any of these special characters it is throwing query parse > exception. Can anyone give pointer over this? > Thanks in advance. > You need to escape those characters. Look at http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_1/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters If you are using Solrj, this should be done automatically. Solrj calls ClientUtils.escapeQueryChars under the hood. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
