Yaniv, there is an example of this in the docs, http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/snapshot/rest-api-indexes.html#rest-api-find-node-by-query shoing the ~ operator in action.
HTH! Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://startupbootcamp.org/ - Öresund - Innovation happens HERE. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Yaniv Ben Yosef <yani...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Axel, > > I've read the syntax, which is why I was surprised. There are wildcard > options in the syntax, e.g.: test* and test? and even te*st. > So I would expect that [director*] should return director and directory. > [director], if I understand the syntax correctly, should return just > director. > But actually, it also returns director and directory in my code. > This means that [director] is equivalent to [director*], which I find a bit > strange. > > In your example - the query ["director"] also returns both director and > directory. > The only thing that works is [+director]. > > Thing is, I don't want to force my users to remember advanced syntax and > append a + to each word. And I also don't want to start parsing queries. > I imagine that the syntax in the Lucene documentation should work (i.e., > [director] *should not* be equivalent to [director*]. It's either a bug > somewhere, or I'm not configuring/using something correctly. > Anyone has an idea? > > Thanks again, > > --- Yaniv > > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Axel Morgner <a...@morgner.de> wrote: > >> Hi Yaniv, >> >> didn't try your case, just read the code. If I remember correctly, it may >> help to expand your search term "director john" into a Lucene query, e.g. >> something like "\"director\" OR \"john\"". >> >> The complete Lucene query syntax see [1]. >> >> Greetings >> >> Axel >> >> [1] http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_1_0/queryparsersyntax.html >> >> Am 07.09.2011 um 12:16 schrieb Yaniv Ben Yosef: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > This question may be Lucene related, but since I'm using it via Neo4J I'm >> > asking here first. I'm using Neo4J 1.4 M06. >> > I have a graph representing people, with a few properties about each >> person >> > (e.g., their name and job title). >> > Now I'd like to create a search form that will allow the user to enter >> > either the person's first name, last name, title, or any combination. For >> > example, the query [john director] should result with all the people >> whose >> > name or title contain both john and director. >> > To play with that, I created this little psvm: >> > >> > public class FullTextIndexTest >> > { >> > public static void main(String[] args) >> > { >> > GraphDatabaseService graphDb = >> > GraphDatabaseServiceFactory.createGraphDatabase("target/var/db"); >> > >> > Transaction t = graphDb.beginTx(); >> > Node n1 = graphDb.createNode(); >> > n1.setProperty("name", "John Smith"); >> > n1.setProperty("title", "Directory Manager"); >> > >> > Node n2 = graphDb.createNode(); >> > n2.setProperty("name", "Johnny Malkovich"); >> > n2.setProperty("title", "Director of R&D"); >> > >> > Node n3 = graphDb.createNode(); >> > n3.setProperty("name", "John Horovich"); >> > n3.setProperty("title", "Sr. Director"); >> > >> > IndexManager index = graphDb.index(); >> > Index<Node> fulltextPerson = index.forNodes("person-fulltext", >> > MapUtil.stringMap(IndexManager.PROVIDER, "lucene", "type", >> > "fulltext")); >> > fulltextPerson.add(n1, "combined", n1.getProperty("name") + " " + >> > n1.getProperty("title")); >> > fulltextPerson.add(n2, "combined", n2.getProperty("name") + " " + >> > n2.getProperty("title")); >> > fulltextPerson.add(n3, "combined", n3.getProperty("name") + " " + >> > n3.getProperty("title")); >> > t.success(); >> > t.finish(); >> > >> > // search in the fulltext index >> > IndexHits<Node> hits = fulltextPerson.query("combined", "director >> > john"); >> > System.out.printf("Found %d results:\n", hits.size()); >> > for (Node node : hits) >> > { >> > System.out.println(node.getProperty("name") + ", " + >> > node.getProperty("title")); >> > } >> > } >> > } >> > >> > >> > I expected this program to return 1 result: John Horovich, Sr. Director >> > Instead, I'm getting 3: >> > >> > John Horovich, Sr. Director >> > John Smith, Directory Manager >> > Johnny Malkovich, Director of R&D >> > >> > It seems that Lucene will "accept" terms that contain a query term (e.g, >> > Directory and Johnny) even if I'm not using any wildcards in my query. >> How >> > do I turn this behavior off? I'd like the results to contain only people >> > whose name or title *contain* the word john, but not johnny. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > --- Yaniv >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Neo4j mailing list >> > User@lists.neo4j.org >> > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> User@lists.neo4j.org >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
