A purely negative sub-query is not supported by Lucene - you need to have at least one positive term, such as "*:*, at each level of sub-query. Try:
((*:* -(field:V1) AND -(field:V2)) AND -(field:V3)) -- Jack Krupansky On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Dhutia, Devansh <ddhu...@gannett.com> wrote: > I have an automated filter query builder that uses the SolrNet nuget > package to build out boolean filters. I have a scenario where it is > generating a fq in the following format: > > ((-(field:V1) AND -(field:V2)) AND -(field:V3)) > The filter looks legal to me (albeit with extra parentheses), but the > above yields 0 total results, even though I know eligible data exists. > > If I manually re-write the above filter as > > (-(field:V1) AND -(field:V2) AND -(field:V3)) > I get the expected results. > > I realize the auto generated filter could be rewritten in a different way, > but the question still remains, why is the first version not returning any > results? > > Solr does not report any errors & returns successfully, just with 0 > results. > > Thanks >
