Hi Andrew,
you can escape the special characters in the string that QueryParser
reserves
by:
String queryString = QueryParser.escape( queryString );
Query query = QueryParser.parse( queryString );
Yuhan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Andrew Kane <andrewrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, passing the buck doesn't really work for me. If you think Lucene is a
> *database* that's fine, but in your demo code (or wherever) you should have
> a translation routine to convert user input into *SQL/whatever language
> you're using* and solve 95% of the use cases. Does such a translation
> routine exist?
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Yes. You're confusing an *engine* with a full-blown application.
> >
> > The user here is a Java programmer. I argue that guessing, which
> > is what you're asking for, is emphatically NOT in the domain of the
> > search *engine*, which is what Lucene is. Imagine the poor programmer
> > trying to understand why certain results were returned when the
> > engine changed the query while attempting to guess. Chaos.
> >
> > Dealing with bad user input is the application's responsibility. You're
> > perfectly
> > free to try to figure out what "the right thing to do" is, given your
> > search
> > domain, when you catch a parsing error. And I flat guarantee you'll be
> > wrong
> > for some percentage of cases.
> >
> > Which is why the engine is doing what it's doing, IMO...
> >
> > Best
> > Erick
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Andrew Kane <andrewrk...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What are you talking about?! A search engine isn't a compiler with a
> > > programmer for a user and a strict syntax. The job of a search engine
> is
> > > to
> > > produce the best results it can *for any given input*. Am I missing
> > > something here?
> > >
> > > Andrew.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Adriano Crestani <
> > > adrianocrest...@gmail.com
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > It's valid syntax error, since - is the exclusion operator, so the QP
> > > > expects a term, phrase, parenthesis, etc after that.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Kane <andrewrk...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Shouldn't these two queries be fine? (from TREC million query
> > track).
> > > > > Should this be entered as a bug?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Andrew.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Cannot parse 'statistics on child labor laws 1930 -': Encountered
> > > "<EOF>"
> > > > > at
> > > > > line 1, column 37.
> > > > > Was expecting one of:
> > > > > "(" ...
> > > > > "*" ...
> > > > > <QUOTED> ...
> > > > > <TERM> ...
> > > > > <PREFIXTERM> ...
> > > > > <WILDTERM> ...
> > > > > "[" ...
> > > > > "{" ...
> > > > > <NUMBER> ...
> > > > > <TERM> ...
> > > > > "*" ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Cannot parse 'u.s. census bureau local employment dynamics --':
> > > > Encountered
> > > > > " "-" "- "" at line 1, column 46.
> > > > > Was expecting one of:
> > > > > "(" ...
> > > > > "*" ...
> > > > > <QUOTED> ...
> > > > > <TERM> ...
> > > > > <PREFIXTERM> ...
> > > > > <WILDTERM> ...
> > > > > "[" ...
> > > > > "{" ...
> > > > > <NUMBER> ...
> > > > > <TERM> ...
> > > > > "*" ...
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
