Matthew, Ok, thanks for the clarifications.
When I have some quiet time, I'll try to re-do the tests I did earlier and post back if any questions. Thanks again, Jim ---- Matthew Hall <mh...@informatics.jax.org> wrote: > Oh.. no. > > If you specifically include a fieldname: blah in your clause, you don't > need a MultiFieldQueryParser. > > The purpose of the MFQP is to turn queries like this "blah" > automatically into this "field1: blah" AND "field2: blah" AND "field3: > blah" (Or OR if you set it up properly) > > When you setup the MFQP you specify what fields you want to have this > behavior apply to, and can even give each field its own specific analyzer. > > So if in your index you have multiple fields, each of which was created > with a different analyzer, you could search these effortlessly in your > webapp using the MFQP. > > (If for example you have an exact_contents and a contents field, one > where punctuation and capitalization matters, one where it does not) > > Hope that clears things up for you. > > Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
