Re: Extending query parser with MinShouldMatch syntax

2008-09-16 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Suppose that I propose a file-type filter to the user, and the user typed : some keywords, like "hello world". The user gets back results, and he now : wants to filter those results by select "PDF" from the file-type filter. The : only query the client application can send to the back-end is "he

Re: Extending query parser with MinShouldMatch syntax

2008-09-13 Thread Mark Harwood
You might want to try the XML query parser in contrib. I deliberately created this to allow remote clients to have full control over lucene (filters, caching etc) without trying to bloat the standard query parser with special characters. On 13 Sep 2008, at 18:26, "Shai Erera" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Extending query parser with MinShouldMatch syntax

2008-09-13 Thread Shai Erera
Hi, I would like to suggest an extension to Lucene's query syntax, which will allow application developers to send query constraints with a MinShouldMatch value to the search engine, from the client application. Such constraints are for example ACL (security information) and other filters on the q