There has never been a guarantee that going back and forth between a
parsed query and its string representation is idempotent. so this
isn't supported.
Best,
Erick
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:58 AM, Michael Peterson <quu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At Rocana we have a search system that builds a Lucene query on a front end
> (web)
> system and sends the query string to a backend system. The query typed in
> by the user
> on the front end first gets parsed (for rewriting and adding additional
> hidden clauses),
> turned back into a Lucene query string and that query string is sent over
> the network
> to the backend where it is parsed again into a Query object for searching
> with the
> IndexSearcher.
>
> We are using Lucene 5.5.0.
>
> We've hit a problem with range queries with this model - namely that a
> range query
> of the form
>
> ts:[1000 TO 2000]
>
> when run through the StandardSyntaxParser and back out as a string gets
> changed to
>
> [ts:1000 ts:2000]
>
> Which would be fine, except that when that alternative form of range syntax
> is fed
> back into either the StandardSyntaxParser or the StandardQueryParser it
> misinterprets
> it and attaches the default field to it.
>
> Here's code to illustrate:
>
> String query = "ts:[1000 TO 2000] AND foo";
> String defaultField = "text";
>
> StandardSyntaxParser p = new StandardSyntaxParser();
> QueryNode queryTree = p.parse(query, defaultField);
> String queryStringFromTree = queryTree.toQueryString(new
> EscapeQuerySyntaxImpl()).toString();
>
> StandardQueryParser qp = new StandardQueryParser(IndexUtil.getAnalyzer());
> org.apache.lucene.search.Query queryFromOrig = qp.parse(query,
> defaultField);
> org.apache.lucene.search.Query queryFromTree =
> qp.parse(queryStringFromTree, defaultField);
>
> System.out.println("queryStringFromTree : " + queryStringFromTree);
> System.out.println("Orig query parsed : " + queryFromOrig);
> System.out.println("From Tree query parsed : " + queryFromTree);
>
> which prints:
>
> queryStringFromTree : [ts:1000 ts:2000] AND text:foo
> Orig query parsed : +ts:[1000 TO 2000] +text:foo
> From Tree query parsed : +text:[ts:1000 TO ts:2000] +text:foo
>
> What do you recommend to handle this issue?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Michael Peterson
>
> http://www.rocana.com
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