turns out the index is being built with lower-case terms which is why we
aren't getting hits the way we expect. When I change my search terms to
lower I see more of what I expect.
Gonna keep working on this and post updates.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Christian Bongiorno <
christ...@bongiorno.org> wrote:
> I have a situation where I have a series of terms queries as part of a
> BooleanQuery.
>
> example:
>
> term: 'sole type' -> leather
> BooleanClause.SHOULD_OCCURR
> term: 'title' -> 'Men's Golf shoes'
> BooleanClause.SHOULD_OCCURR
> ...
>
> But, some terms are incredibly powerful indicators of match
> term: 'band type' -> 'gold'
>
> Normally, I would set this as a field boost in the query. Problem is, it
> isn't producing ANY changes even when I set the boost score absurdly high. I
> have also tried to set the BooleanClause.MUST on my really important term
> and I get no results at all.
>
> I tried a simple TermQuery for that (no clause) and got no results. Below
> is a code snippet. I checked through the recent archives discussing field
> boosts and I am pretty confident I am doing it right. So, now I am presuming
> it's a problem with my query.
>
> private Query buildQuery(Map<String, String> CatalogInfo) {
> if (CatalogInfo != null && CatalogInfo.size() > 0) {
> BooleanQuery booleanQuery = new BooleanQuery();
> for (Map.Entry<String, String> attributeValue :
> CatalogInfo.entrySet()) {
> String attributeName = attributeValue.getKey();
> String[] attributeValues;
> if (attributeValue.getValue().indexOf(VALUES_DELIMITER) ==
> -1) {
> attributeValues = new String[]
> {attributeValue.getValue()};
> } else {
> attributeValues =
> attributeValue.getValue().split(VALUES_DELIMITER);
> }
> for (String attributeValue : attributeValues) {
> String escapedValue =
> QueryParser.escape(attributeValue).trim();
> TermQuery termQuery = new TermQuery(new
> Term(attributeName, escapedValue));
>
>
> Float boostNumber = _boostMap.get(attributeName); //
> this is where 'band type' gets it's boost
> if (boostNumber != null) {
> LOG.warn("Boost value found: " + boostNumber);
> termQuery.setBoost(boostNumber);
> }
> booleanQuery.add(termQuery,
> BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
> }
> }
> LOG.warn("Boolean query: " + booleanQuery.toString());
> return booleanQuery;
> }
> return null;
> }
> --
> Christian Bongiorno
>
>
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Christian Bongiorno
