Thanks for the quick response Paul =) However I am lost while looking at the surround package. Are you suggesting I can solve my problem at hand using the surround package?
On 7/18/07, Paul Elschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 05:58, Cedric Ho wrote: > Hi everybody, > > We recently need to support wildcard search terms "*", "?" together > with SpanQuery. It seems that there's no SpanWildcardQuery available. > After looking into the lucene source code for a while, I guess we can > either: > > 1. Use SpanRegexQuery, or > > 2. Write our own SpanWildcardQuery, and implements the > rewrite(IndexReader) method to rewrite the query into a SpanOrQuery > with some SpanTermQuery. > > Of the two approaches, Option 1 seems to be easier. But I am rather > concerned about the performance of using regular expression. On the > other hand, I am not sure if there are any other concerns I am not > aware of for option 2 (i.e. is there a reason why there's no > SpanWildcardQuery in the first place?) > > Any advices ? The basic problem you are facing is that in Lucene the expansion of the terms is tightly coupled to the generation of a combination query using the expanded terms. In contrib/surround the term expansion and query generation are decoupled using a visitor pattern for the terms. The code is here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/java/trunk/contrib/surround/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryParser/surround/query In surround a wild card term can provide either an OR of normal term queries, or a SpanOrQuery of span term queries. This query generation is in class SimpleTerm, which has one method for a normal boolean OR query over the terms, and one for a span query for the terms. In both cases surround uses a regular expression to expand the matching terms, but that could be changed to use another wildcard expansion mechanisms than the ones in SrndPrefixQuery and SrndTruncQuery, which are subclasses of SimpleTerm. With the term expansion and the query combination split, it is also necessary to limit the maximum number of expanded terms in another way than Lucene does. In surround the classes BasicQueryFactory and TooManyBasicQueries are used for that. Regards, Paul Elschot > > Cedric > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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