Hi,
I'm not getting you. escape() method takes String as an argument.
The code snippet I am using is as follows
*String escaped = MultiFieldQueryParser.escape(queryString);
Query query1 = parser.parse(escaped);
TopDocs results = searcher.search(query1);
*Please point out where I may be going wrong.
Govind
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Adriano Crestani <adrianocrest...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Hi Govind,
>
> escape() method should only be used to escape term, not the query itself.
> If
> the user is entering the query, it's his responsibility to escape the
> query.
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:21 AM, govind bhardwaj <govins...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using Lucene version 3.1
> > Previously I had trouble regarding special characters as when I entered
> > "---" as my input, it gave the following error
> >
> >
> > *Caused by: org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Encountered "
> "-"
> > "- "" at line 1, column 1.
> > Was expecting one of:
> > "(" ...
> > "*" ...
> > <QUOTED> ...
> > <TERM> ...
> > <PREFIXTERM> ...
> > <WILDTERM> ...
> > "[" ...
> > "{" ...
> > <NUMBER> ...
> > <TERM> ...
> > "*" ...
> >
> > *To overcome this, I used escape() method of the QueryParser and worked
> > fine. But now, unlike previously, the search for "item*" yielded no
> results
> > because I guess it escaped the asterisk character too. How should I go
> > about
> > preventing this from happening ? I am using MultiFieldQueryParser.
> >
> >
> >
> > Govind
> > *
> >
> > *--
> > No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several
> thousand
> > electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
> >
>
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