>From my understanding, that method is supposed to basically escape characters inside of a term you are trying to query for. So since whitespace is not treated as a part of a term in a query string (it separates terms to be queried, using the default operator), it has to be escaped.
How are you trying to use the method? On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 5:18 PM Joel Bernstein <[email protected]> wrote: > I was using the ClientUtils.escapeSpecialChars method and was > surprised that white space is being escaped. > > > https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/util/ClientUtils.java#L186 > > I was considering removing this but wanted to see if anyone had a reason > for whitespace to be escaped. > > > > Joel Bernstein > http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ >
