Yes, it's string: <fieldType name="string" class="solr.StrField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/> <field name="id" type="string" stored="true" indexed="true"/>
Is there a better field definition I should be using? On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > What is the field type of if field? Is it string? > > What happens when you do : > > &q={!raw f=id}-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d > > query.setQuery("{!raw f=id}-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d"); > > > > --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Paul Tomblin <ptomb...@xcski.com> wrote: > >> From: Paul Tomblin <ptomb...@xcski.com> >> Subject: How to get a field that starts with a minus? >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 5:15 PM >> I have a field in my database, "id", >> which is the unique key. The id >> is generated as an MD5 hash of some of the other data in >> the record, >> and unfortunately the way I converted it to hex meant that >> sometimes I >> get a negative value. I'm having a real hard time >> figuring out the >> right combination of quotes and escapes so I can actually >> query these >> things using SolrJ. On the Solr web interface, I can >> just do put in >> id:"-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d" >> which results in a url like: >> http://localhost:8080/solrChunk/nutch/select/?q=id:%22-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d%22&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on >> but when I try that using SolrJ >> >> SolrQuery query = new >> SolrQuery(); >> query.setQuery(key + ":" + >> value); >> query.setRows(NUM_AT_A_TIME); >> >> int start = 0; >> while (true) >> { >> >> query.setStart(start); >> >> QueryResponse resp = solrChunkServer.query(query); >> >> SolrDocumentList docs = resp.getResults(); >> >> LOG.debug("got " + docs.getNumFound() + " documents >> (or " + docs.size() + " if you prefer)"); >> if >> (docs.size() == 0) >> >> break; >> >> for >> (SolrDocument doc : docs) >> { >> >> retCode.add(doc); >> } >> if >> (docs.size() < NUM_AT_A_TIME) >> >> break; >> >> >> start += NUM_AT_A_TIME; >> } >> >> I call that using key = "id" and value = >> "-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d" and I get an >> exception. If I >> change value to "\"-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d\"", I >> get no >> results. If I change value to >> "\-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d", I >> get no results. If I change value to >> "\"\-3f66fdfb1ef5f8719f65a7403e93cc9d\"", I get no >> results. >> >> If I had hair, I'd be tearing it out right now. >> >> -- >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomblin >> http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ptomblin >> > > > > -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomblin http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ptomblin