Hi, I am trying to implement a NEAR option in the QueryParser.jj.
First I have to say, Brian Goetz has done an awesome job putting this together. I rely on it all the time, and it's solid and very complex especially if you don't know JavaCC Now to my question. Overview of how I think the QueryParser works: The basis for the QueryParser is to break up everything into the appropriate type of Query (TermQuery, PhraseQuery, ...), by the matching the query pattern. Then to combine these queries into a collection of BooleanClauses and finally BooleanQueries. Now the NEAR option will only work with phrase searches since that is the only place where you can set the slop factor. So I had two thoughts. 1) Create a new pattern <TERM> "NEAR"<NUM>+ <TERM> The problem I have with this, is that I don't think it will work since the parser will see <TERM> and never look for the "NEAR" option. 2) Retroactively make a TermQuery a PhraseQuery with a set slop. This is somewhat how the AND conjunction works. I am proposing taking the previous BooleanClause and, check to see if the query is a TermQuery. If so then extract the Term and replace the query in the BooleanClause with the new PhraseQuery. However, in trying to do this I find that I cannot extract the Term from the TermQuery because there is no getTerm() from the TermQuery. I don't think it would be difficult to add, but I there might be other issues. Any thoughts or idea will be helpful. Thanks --Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
