more then once, people have suggested that QueryParser should either throw and Exception or implicitly put a MatchAllDocsQuery in any BooleanQuery it produces when the string it's parsing contains entirely negative clauses.
I've argued against this idea because QueryParser doesn't know how the Query it's producing is oging to be used ... many people (myself included) use it to parse some user input, which they then combine with other automaticaly constructed clauses -- and the MatchAllDocsQuery would be a bad idea. replying to question about this tonight, it occured to me that BooleanQuery.rewrite might be a feasible place for code that automaticly includes a MatchAllDocsQuery when all clauses are negative ... are there any legitimate usecases for calling rewrite other then when a Searcher is about to execute the query? -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
