Re: "Advanced" query language

2005-12-20 Thread Terry Steichen
I've looked at Mark's concept and code, and, IMHO, his implementation is well-done and addresses a huge need. It allows you to conduct Lucene searches that can harness all the power of the latest Query objects, without any special Java coding. Yet it also allows the user to be presented with

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
In reviewing the latest changes incorporated into release 1.9 RC1, I noticed a change responding to JIRA item LUCENE-306. According to the writeup, the new change forces the wildcard pattern 'cat??' to exactly match the length of the term (in this case, a five-letter term starting with 'cat').

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
s it was in 1.4.x or provide a flag (defaulting either way). Terry Yonik Seeley wrote: On 2/21/06, Terry Steichen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For example, let's say that I'm interested in docs with terms 'riot', 'riots', 'rioting' and &#x

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
use a stemming analyzer of some kind, which would match cat and cats but not cater, catches, etc? http://snowball.tartarus.org/demo.php Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/ On Feb 21, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Terry Steichen wrote: No, I don't think that the riot* o

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
Hoss, Whether the previous behavior (which I believe has been present in Lucene from the outset) was a "bug" or a "feature" is kind of academic. My point is that this behavior has value that's not countered by any argument that any significant value is added by eliminating it. As to your ri

Re: Lucene 1.9 RC1 release available

2006-02-21 Thread Terry Steichen
1) Having a simple way to match singular and plural forms of a term with a single wildcard expression is quite useful. 2) The trailing '?' behavior has been present since that wildcard was first introduced. Why not provide a flag to allow the original behavior to optionally be preserved? 3) The

Re: BooleanFilter proposal

2006-03-24 Thread Terry Steichen
+1 markharw00d wrote: What do folks feel about a BooleanFilter which is the equivalent of BooleanQuery ie a filter which contains other filters, combined with the same "must", "should" or "must not" logic. I know we already have ChainedFilter in the "misc" section of the contrib area but it