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Mark Harwood commented on LUCENE-3133:
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2454 already includes extensions for the XML parser syntax and the standard
QueryParser could work the same with some added syntax. I think I've seen other
languages use WITH as a keyword e.g.
{code:borderStyle=solid}
forename:john surname:smith WITH(employer:google AND date:2009)
{code}
In this example the WITH keyword is used to mark a clause that relates to a
child document.
What is left unsaid here is how parent documents are distinguished from child
docs in the index. I guess you could
1) Extend the WITH syntax to make it part of the query expression or
2) Make it part of the QueryParser constructor (i.e. tell the query parser what
denotes parent docs) or
3) Have a fixed system for tagging parents enforced by Lucene's IndexWriter
when calling the addDocuments API.
Option 3 seems too restrictive (it may be desirable for example to have
multiple levels of hierarchy to roll up to in an index).
The majority of users we have using this feature currently do so using a
form-based query builder which assembles the nested XML syntax behind the
scenes so there is no need for extensions to the standard QueryParser. I can
see some power users would want this though.
> Fix QueryParser to handle nested fields
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> Key: LUCENE-3133
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3133
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Fix For: 3.2, 4.0
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> Once we commit LUCENE-2454, we need to make it easy for apps to enable this
> with QueryParser.
> It seems like it's a "schema" like behavior, ie we need to be able to express
> the join structure of the related fields.
> And then whenever QP produces a query that spans fields requiring a join, the
> NestedDocumentQuery is used to wrap the child fields?
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