You may also want to look at: ClientUtils.escapeQueryChars( String s ) http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/util/ClientUtils.html#escapeQueryChars%28java.lang.String%29
this will escape any lucene query chars, then pass it to URLEncoder and you should be good to go. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, JohnRodey <timothydd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thanks Sean, that was exactly what I need. One question though... > > How to correctly retain the Solr specific characters. > I tried adding escape chars but URLEncoder doesn't seem to care about that: > Example: > String s1 = "\"mr. bill\" oh n?"; > String s2 = "\\\"mr. bill\\\" oh n\\?"; > String encoded1 = URLEncoder.encode(s1, "UTF-8"); > String encoded2 = URLEncoder.encode(s2, "UTF-8"); > System.out.println(encoded1); > System.out.println(encoded2); > Output: > %22mr.+bill%22+oh+n%3F > %5C%22mr.+bill%5C%22+oh+n%5C%3F > > Should I allow the URLEncoder to translate s1, then replace %22 with ", %3F > with ?, and so on? > Or is there a better way? > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Does-SOLR-provide-a-java-class-to-perform-url-encoding-tp842660p842744.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
