: I am building up a query with quite a bit of logic such as parentheses, plus : signs, etc... and it's a little tedious dealing with it all at a string : level. I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on constructing the query : in lucene and using the string representation of the query to send to solr.
There was another thread where this idea came up recently; although your motivation is very differnet from that persons, all of the general concerns still apply... http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/514adb88f7288ac1/can_i_use_per_field_analyzers_and_dynamic_fields ...that's not to say that it couldn't be *made* to work out, assuming a limited set of Query types and a specific analyzer were used, but it's not really waht the Query class (or it's toString method) were designed for -- it would probably be easier to write a custom query string formatter class, or to implement a QParser to apply your logic on the server side given simple key-val(s) input params. -Hoss
