Hi list,
I've been working on trying to restrict the indexed fields that are
available to different types of search. I have two 'classes' of search:
admin and standard. Admin may search all fields, standard may search
only three or four. Unfortunately I've not had much joy reliably
implementing this in Lucene.
Here is my first implementation (apologies for the 1.4.3 code)
// get the fields that may be searched and set the flags to be
// prohibited by default
String[] fields = getAdminSearchFields();
int[] flags = new int[fields.length];
for (int i = 0; i < flags.length; i++) {
flags[i] = MultiFieldQueryParser.PROHIBITED_FIELD;
}
// get the fields we are allowed to search
String[] searchFields = null;
switch (mode) {
case MODE_ADMIN :
searchFields = getAdminSearchFields();
break;
case MODE_STANDARD :
default:
searchFields = getStandardSearchFields();
break;
}
// set the flags on the allowed fields to normal
for (int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < searchFields.length; j++) {
if (fields[i].equals(searchFields[j])) {
flags[i] = MultiFieldQueryParser.NORMAL_FIELD;
}
}
}
Query query = MultiFieldQueryParser.parse(queryString, fields, flags,
new StandardAnalyzer());
The search fields are just string arrays:
protected String[] getAdminSearchFields() {
// admin search fields
return new String[] { ADDRESS, EMAIL_ADDRESS, FAMILY_NAME, FAX_NUMBER,
GIVEN_NAME, HISTORICAL_ID, NOTES, ORGANISATION, PHONE_NUMBER,
POSITION,
POST_CODE, POST_TOWN, TITLE, USERNAME };
}
protected String[] getStandardSearchFields() {
// standard search fields
return new String[] { TITLE, FAMILY_NAME, GIVEN_NAME, ORGANISATION };
}
I have found that the standard query doesn't work as intended. I am not
able to specify specific search fields in the query and sometimes
searches on permitted fields fail. An example of a query which would
return no results even though there is a hit would be 'givenName:fred'.
I suppose this makes sense given the query that's generated.
My second attempt looks like this:
// get the fields we are allowed to search
String[] searchFields = null;
switch (mode) {
case MODE_ADMIN :
searchFields = getAdminSearchFields();
break;
case MODE_STANDARD :
default:
searchFields = getStandardSearchFields();
break;
}
Query query = MultiFieldQueryParser.parse(queryString, searchFields,
new StandardAnalyzer());
This mostly works. The point where it falls down is when you specify a
field I want prohibited in the query string. Eg. searching for 'london'
will fail, but searching for 'address:london' will return results.
Can anyone recommend a method that might achieve what I want? I really
don't want standard users to be able to search on address, etc.
rgds,
Richard
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