Re: exact matches not possible?

2008-01-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
I guess you can try specifying your search as a filter query e.g. q=blablafq=X:blabla, which will give back only the exact match. On Jan 31, 2008 7:23 PM, Jörg Kiegeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I do substring-queries on my field named X. Now however I also require exact-match

Re: exact matches not possible?

2008-01-31 Thread Jörg Kiegeland
I guess you can try specifying your search as a filter query e.g. q=blablafq=X:blabla, which will give back only the exact match. I tried this syntax in may Firefox URL field, however seems not to help. How do I specify a filter query with Solrj (i.e. using SolrQuery)?

Re: exact matches not possible?

2008-01-31 Thread Andy Blower
Disclaimer: I've only been working (evaluating) Solr for three weeks. I had exactly this issue, and I found that using a field of type string gave exact matches. So, if you need to do both substring and exact match queries, you'll need two fields. One non-tokenized field using class StrField and

Re: exact matches not possible?

2008-01-31 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Jan 31, 2008 10:26 AM, Jörg Kiegeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you can try specifying your search as a filter query e.g. q=blablafq=X:blabla, which will give back only the exact match. I tried this syntax in may Firefox URL field, however seems not to help. How do I specify a

Re: exact matches not possible?

2008-01-31 Thread Shalin Shekhar Mangar
Sorry, this method will not work with tokenized fields I guess. Andy's approach is the standard in this case, however Yonik's method should also work. As for specifying filter queries with SolrJ, use SolrQuery.addFilterQuery(String filterQuery) to specify filter queries in code. On Jan 31, 2008