Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-27 Thread Pieter Berkel
While in theory -URL: should be valid syntax, the Lucene query parser doesn't accept it and throws a ParseException. I've considered raising this issue on lucene-dev but it didn't seem to affect many users so I decided not to pursue the matter. On 27/09/2007, Chris Hostetter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-27 Thread Brian Whitman
thanks Peter, Hoss and Ryan.. q=(URL:[* TO *] -URL:) This gives me 400 Query parsing error: Cannot parse '(URL:[* TO *] - URL:)': Lexical error at line 1, column 29. Encountered: \ (34), after : \ adding something like: filter class=solr.LengthFilterFactory min=1 max=1 / I'll

Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-27 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 9/27/07, Pieter Berkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While in theory -URL: should be valid syntax, the Lucene query parser doesn't accept it and throws a ParseException. I don't have time to work on that now, but I did just open a bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1006 -Yonik

Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-27 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 9/27/07, Yonik Seeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/27/07, Pieter Berkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While in theory -URL: should be valid syntax, the Lucene query parser doesn't accept it and throws a ParseException. I don't have time to work on that now, OK, I lied :-) It was simple

searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-26 Thread Brian Whitman
I have a large index with a field for a URL. For some reason or another, sometimes a doc will get indexed with that field blank. This is fine but I want a query to return only the set URL fields... If I do a query like: q=URL:[* TO *] I get a lot of empty fields back, like: docstr

Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-26 Thread Pieter Berkel
I've experienced a similar problem before, assuming the field type is string (i.e. not tokenized), there is subtle yet important difference between a field that is null (i.e. not contained in the document) and one that is an empty string (in the document but with no value). See

Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-26 Thread Ryan McKinley
Your query will work if you make sure the URL field is omitted from the document at index time when the field is blank. adding something like: filter class=solr.LengthFilterFactory min=1 max=1 / to the schema field should do it without needing to ensure it is not null or on the

Re: searching for non-empty fields

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:12:48 -0400 : From: Ryan McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: Re: searching for non-empty fields : : : Your query will work if you make sure the URL field is omitted from the : document