Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-12 Thread Robert Watkins
Thank you, Daniel. Once I get an environment suitable enough I will certainly give this a whirl. -- Robert On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Naber wrote: On Mittwoch 12 Oktober 2005 17:18, Robert Watkins wrote: Does that sound reasonable -- and scalable -- to you? I don't think you need to itera

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-12 Thread Daniel Naber
On Mittwoch 12 Oktober 2005 17:18, Robert Watkins wrote: > Does that sound reasonable -- and scalable -- to you? I don't think you need to iterate at all, you can easily expand the terms of a query: QueryParser qp = new QueryParser("f", new StandardAnalyzer()); Query q = qp.parse("e*");

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-12 Thread Robert Watkins
Having now looked at the test cases in SVN (specifically, TestMultiPhraseQuery.java), I cannot see any tests using simple wildcards, only terms ending with *, and thus suitable for a PrefixQuery. The examples do reveal how it could be done for wildcards, but my concern turns to scalability. I am

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Naber
On Mittwoch 12 Oktober 2005 00:15, Robert Watkins wrote: > Wonderful! But what about wildcards? I realised after I had sent the > last message that my pattern should have been written: Have a look at the test cases: you need to expand the terms yourself, i.e. it doesn't matter if there's a prefi

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Watkins
Wonderful! But what about wildcards? I realised after I had sent the last message that my pattern should have been written: ( term | term as prefix | wildcard term )+ -- Robert On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Daniel Naber wrote: On Dienstag 11 Oktober 2005 22:53, Robert Watkins wrote: I was under th

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Naber
On Dienstag 11 Oktober 2005 22:53, Robert Watkins wrote: > I was under the impression that PhrasePrefixQuery only worked in the > special case of the term that would otherwise be used in a PrefixQuery > coming at the end of the sequence of terms, as in: No, the test cases show that the prefix ter

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Watkins
I was under the impression that PhrasePrefixQuery only worked in the special case of the term that would otherwise be used in a PrefixQuery coming at the end of the sequence of terms, as in: ( term )+ ( term as prefix ) but not where either a WildcardQuery or a PrefixQuery occurs anywhere in t

Re: wildcards within a phrase query

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel Naber
On Dienstag 11 Oktober 2005 15:32, Robert Watkins wrote: > The only idea that comes to mind is to try to combine a PhraseQuery and > a PrefixQuery Yes, PhrasePrefixQuery already supports that. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de ---