[fw-general] Does Zend_Search_Lucene_Search_QueryParser just... er... not work?

[Matthew Ratzloff]

I was under the impression that the QueryParser class parsed a query and, if
there were no exceptions, returned an object that, when converted to a
string, would return a working query.

This seems to not be the case:

------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
set_include_path('./ZendFramework/trunk/library');

require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();

$queryString = '+gender:female age:[24 TO 30] +location:"Seattle, WA"';
try {
    $query = Zend_Search_Lucene_Search_QueryParser::parse($queryString);
} catch (Zend_Search_Lucene_Search_QueryParserException $e) {
    echo "Query syntax error: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
}

print $query;
#=> gender female age to location seattle wa
------------------------------------------------------------------

Any ideas?  Or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the class?

-Matt