QueryParser

[stephane vaucher]

Hello lucene gurus,

I've been experimenting with the QueryParser supplied with lucene and have a question. I've read from the FAQ that the grammar is the following:

Query ::= Clause ( [ Conjunction ] Clause ) *
Conjunction ::= 'AND' | 'OR' | '||'
Clause ::= [ Modifier ] [ FieldName ':' ] BasicClause [ Boost ]
Modifier ::= '-' | '+' | '!' | 'NOT'
BasicClause ::= ( Term | Phrase | | PrefixQuery '(' Query ')'
PrefixQuery ::= Term '*'
Phrase ::= '"' Term * '"'
Boost ::= '^' DecimalDigit+ '.' DecimalDigit+
Term ::= <a-word-or-token-to-match>
FieldName ::= <name-of-an-indexed-field>

From what I've gathered was that we can have a request like the following:
a) (snow AND removal) OR foo
b) (snow AND removal)^2 OR foo

However, when I print the result(query) of the parsing, I have the following results:
a) (+snow +remov al) foo --> OK
b) +snow +removal --> ??? I lose the foo and there is no boost

I haven't seen any posts about this case, so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or simply weird enough that it hasn't been tested ( I haven't seen any tests in org.apache.lucene.queryParser.TestQueryParser.java)...

My environment:

I'm using Lucene-1.2 production release
on:
Linux RH 7.0
with:
java version "1.4.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode)

Thanks,
Stephane Vaucher
Software designer
CIRANO




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