Thanks for your input. I'm sure I could do as you suggest (and maybe that will end up being my best option), but I had hoped to use a string for creating the query object, particularly as some of my queries are a bit complex.
Thanks. Chris Hostetter wrote: > > > I haven't really been following this thread, but it's gotten so long > i got interested. > > from whta i can tell skimming the discussion so far, it seems like the > biggest confusion is about the definition of a "phrase" and what analyzers > do with "quote" characters and what the QueryParser does with "quote" > charcters -- when ultimately you don't seem to really care about "phrases" > in a textual searching sense; nor do you seem to care about any of the > "features" of the QueryParser. > > it seems that what you care about is: > > 1) making documents, and adding a list of "text chunks" to those > documents (what you've been calling phrases) > 2) you then want to be able to search for "almost-exact" matches on those > "text chunks" ... these matches should be "exactish" because you don't > want partial matches based on white spaces, or splitting on hyphens, > but they shouldn't be truely exact because you want some simple > normalization... > > : actually would like to "normalize" a phrase (spaces) or a hyphenated > word or > : an underscored word to the same value -- e.g. MS-WORD or ms_WORd or "MS > : Word" --> ms_word. > > ...in which case, you should: > a) write yourself an analyzer which does no "tokenizing" (ie: each input > Field value generates a single token) but does the normalization you > want. > b) use this Analyzer when you add the fields to your documents, even > though you don't want *real* tokenization, add make the field type > TOKENIZED so your analyzer gets used. > c) when you get some text input to serach on, pass it to the same > Analyzer, take the Token you get back and manualy construct a > TermQuery out of it for the neccessary field. > > ...that's it. that's all she wrote -- don't even look in QueryParser's > general direction, at all. > > > > -Hoss > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Phrase-search-using-quotes----special-Tokenizer-tf2200760.html#a6128827 Sent from the Lucene - Java Users forum at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
