Re: wildcard search not working on file paths

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Lea
You seem to be indexing paths delimited by backslash then saying a search for Samples/* doesn't match anything. No surprises there, if I've read your code correctly. Since you are creating wildcard queries directly from Terms I don't think that lucene escaping is relevant here, But the presence

Re: wildcard search not working on file paths

2013-10-14 Thread nischal reddy
Hi Ian, Please find a sample program below which better illustrates the scenario public class TestWriter { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { createIndex(); searchIndex(); } public static void createIndex() throws IOException { Di

Re: wildcard search not working on file paths

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Lea
Seems to me that it should work. I suggest you show us a complete self-contained example program that demonstrates the problem. -- Ian. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM, nischal reddy wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Actually im able to do wildcard searches on all the fields except the > "filePath" field

Re: wildcard search not working on file paths

2013-10-14 Thread nischal reddy
Hi Ian, Actually im able to do wildcard searches on all the fields except the "filePath" field. I am able to do both the leading and trailing wildcard searches on all the fields, but when i do the wildcard search on filepath field it is somehow not working, an eg file path would look some thing li

Re: wildcard search not working on file paths

2013-10-14 Thread Ian Lea
Do some googling on leading wildcards and read things like http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/175732 and pick an option you like. -- Ian. On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:12 AM, nischal reddy wrote: > Hi, > > I have problem with doing wild card search on file path fields. > > i ha