I think you could follow Erik's advice. You could index you document's title as an un-tokenized field. Then searcher will treat the title as a whole string. If you hope when user inputs "Lifecycle", this document also be hit, you should think any other ways to solve your problem.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Shivani Sawhney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 3:58 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: Asserting that a value must match the entire content of a field > > Ok... > > I'll explain the problem that I am facing with an example... > > I have several fields for the documents that I index; one of the fields is > 'title'. Now I have provided the user with a screen to search for documents > with a particular title. Let's assume that the value inputted by the user is > 'Project Lifecycle', now I want only the documents with 'Project Lifecycle' > as the 'title' field value to be selected and not the documents with title > as 'Project Lifecycle Management', etc. > I have used exact match but then exact match for 'Project Lifecycle' in the > 'title' field will also allow documents with 'Project Lifecycle Management' > as the field value to be short-listed, which I want to avoid. > > How do I accomplish this? > > Shivani > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:39 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Asserting that a value must match the entire content of a field > > > On Jun 12, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Shivani Sawhney wrote: > > Are you saying that there is no out-of-the-box way of doing this...? > > Well, there are lots of techniques for all sorts of tricks with > Lucene. What you're basically asking for is an untokenized, indexed > field and a TermQuery to find a document with an exact match for a > field. Will that work for your situation? If not, give us some more > details of why that doesn't work and we'll work from there. > > Erik > > > > > Can I not check the content length somehow? As in, mention that the > > length > > of the value (to be matched) must match the length of the field > > value... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 11:10 AM > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Asserting that a value must match the entire content > > of a field > > > > One (ugly) way might be to insert artificial begin/end markers at > > both index > > and search time. > > > > Otis > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Shivani Sawhney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:30:57 AM > > Subject: Asserting that a value must match the entire content of a > > field > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a small query here. > > > > > > > > How do I do an exact match on the value of a field and also assert > > that the > > value must match the entire content of that field? > > > > For E.g., I want that only the documents with 'Product Lifecycle' > > as the > > value of a given field must be selected and even documents with > > 'Product > > Lifecycle Management' as the field value must not be selected. > > > > > > > > Thanks in Advance. > > > > > > > > Shivani > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************** CAUTION - Disclaimer ***************** This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by e-mail and delete the original message. Further, you are not to copy, disclose, or distribute this e-mail or its contents to any other person and any such actions are unlawful. This e-mail may contain viruses. Infosys has taken every reasonable precaution to minimize this risk, but is not liable for any damage you may sustain as a result of any virus in this e-mail. You should carry out your own virus checks before opening the e-mail or attachment. Infosys reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to or from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Infosys e-mail system. ***INFOSYS******** End of Disclaimer ********INFOSYS*** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
