Hi Vijay, with a frequent usage pattern of searching (exactly) for a whole fields value (e.g. the whole name) it may be worth to store that field (name:) twice:
1) as field name_tokenized: with Field.Index.TOKENIZED for normal "contains" querys and 2) as field name_untokenized: with Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED for matching complete content >From the usage (user selects...) you will know which field to search. Btw. as long as you want *exact* matches consider use of TermQuery instead of PrefixQuery as a PrefixQuery for "Pink*" will of course yield "Pinky" as well. Best regards, Fabian -----Original Message----- From: Vijay Santhanam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 10:23 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Exact field searches Hi Guys, Currently I construct a PrefixQuery to exact search through an index of documents that represent Compact Discs, something like www.discogs.com. On the search page, we offer a suggestion list as the user enters text, like google suggest. When a user selects an item out of this list, we mark the search as being an "exact" search, because they know what they want. An exact search wraps the name of the disc in a PrefixQuery and performs the search. But, I'm getting some unwanted results and I'm not sure which solution approach to use. In our dataset, there are hundreds of CDs with single English word titles. Like, "Pink" and "Dust" and "Walk" etc. If the user selects the "Pink" from the suggestion list, then CDs with titles like "Pink Sunset", "A Pink lady", "Pink McPinkington", "Tomorrow the Pink" appear in the results (along with the CDs just titled "Pink"). Obviously, the PhraseQuery finds instances of that phrase in the title field, but I need to somehow exclude those titles that have a different number of tokens from the query. How do I make search for a specific number of tokens in a field? Thanks for your help, Vijay Santhanam B.Eng.(Soft.) Spectrum Wired - Software Engineer T: +61 2 4925 3266 F: +61 2 4925 3255 M: +61 407 525 087 W: www.spectrumwired.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
