Hi Lucene Users,

I would like to catch BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses exception for certain
wildcard searches and display a 'subset' of results.  I have used the
WildcardTermEnum to give me the first X documents matching the wildcard
query.  Below is the code I use to implement the solution.  

Without any performance concerns is this the best solution?
Or should I just tell the user to refine their query!?

Thanks

Ben

===== QueryParserTest.java ================================================ 
...
public class QueryParserTest extends LuceneTestCase {
        ...
        private static int MAX_HITS = 10;
        public void testCatchTooManyClauses() throws Exception {
                reader = IndexReader.open(directory);
                String queryStr = "9*";
                String field = "PART_NBR";
                Hits hits = null;
                Vector docList;
                try {
                        System.out.println("query: " + queryStr);
                        System.out.println("field: " + field);
                        hits =
searcher.search(parser.parse(field+":"+queryStr));
                        docList = new Vector(hits.length());
                        Iterator docListIt = hits.iterator();
                        while(docListIt.hasNext())
        
docList.add(((Hit)docListIt.next()).getDocument());
                }
                catch(BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses ex) {
                        System.out.println("catch
BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses, refining query");
                        Term term = new Term(field, queryStr);

                        WildcardTermEnum wte = new WildcardTermEnum(reader,
term);
                        int cnt = 0;
                        docList = new Vector(MAX_HITS);
                        while(wte.next() && cnt++ < MAX_HITS) {
                                term = wte.term();
                                TermQuery query = new TermQuery(new
Term(field, term.text()));
                                System.out.println("search for " +
query.getTerm().text());
                                hits = searcher.search(query);
                                Iterator docListIt = hits.iterator();
                                while(docListIt.hasNext())
        
docList.add(((Hit)docListIt.next()).getDocument());
                        }
                }
                System.out.println("found:" + docList.size());

        }
...
===== QueryParserTest.java ================================================ 

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