Hi, you have to escape lucene special characters present in usersearch term before handing it over to QueryParser. for more info look at http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_1/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters
“ There are only 10 types of people in this world:- Those who understand binary and those who don’t “ Regards, P.N.Raju, ________________________________ From: Ranveer Kumar <ranveer.s...@gmail.com> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Sun, January 31, 2010 5:35:37 PM Subject: getting error when ":" in the query Hi All, Facing problem when someone searching the string which carry special character " : ". For example: when querying by "ipod:touch" then throwing exception due to " : ". Jan 31, 2010 9:56:35 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: undefined field ipod my full query is : http://localhost:8080/solr/select?q=ipod:touch&hl=true&start=0&rows=10&hl.fragsize=0&hl.fl=body&hl.snippets=2&wt=xml&version=2.2 is there any configuration to allow ":" in query. please help. thanks with regards Ranveer K Kumar
