Please keep this thread going as I am also curious to know why this
has been 'forked'.   I am sure that most of this lies within the
original OPIC filter but I still can't understand why straight forward
lucene queries have not been used within the application.



On 7/6/07, Kai_testing Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been reading up on NUTCH-479 "Support for OR queries" but I must be 
> missing something obvious because I don't understand what the JIRA is about:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-479
>
>    Description:
>    There have been many requests from users to extend Nutch query syntax
>
>    to add support for OR queries,
>    in addition to the implicit AND and NOT
> queries supported now.
>
> Ok, so I guess what I don't understand is what is the "Nutch query syntax"?
>
> The main discussion I found on nutch-user is this:
> http://osdir.com/ml/search.nutch.devel/2004-02/msg00007.html
>     I was wondering why the query syntax is so limited.
>     There are no OR queries, there are no fielded queries,
>     or fuzzy, or approximate... Why? The underlying index
>     supports all these operations.
>
> I notice by looking at the or.patch file 
> (https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12360659/or.patch) that one 
> of the programs under consideration is:
> nutch/searcher/Query.java
> The code for this is distinct from
> lucene/search/Query.java
>
> It looks like this is an architecture issue that I don't understand.  If 
> nutch is an "extension" of lucene, why does it define a different Query 
> class?  Why don't we just use the Lucene code to query the indexes?  Does 
> this have something to do with the nutch webapp (nutch.war)?  What is the 
> historical genesis of this issue (or is that even relevant)?
>
>
>
>
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