Well, depending on what you mean by wildcard, a prefixfilter isn't
necessarily what you want. If wildcard means abc*, then prefixfilter is
right. If it means ab*cd?fg, a prefix filter isn't useful unless you want to
do some fancy indexing.
Think about writing your own filter. Wrap it in a ConstantScoreQuery and put
as many of these together in a BooleanQuery as you want, anding and oring
and notting as you see fit.
It's a good thing you don't want scoring, since ConstantScoreQueriy doesn't
support it <G>.
You could also do something similar with regular expressions (there are
classes to support this in the 1.9 API, contrib section).
There's also CachingWrapperFilter if you think your filters will be re-used.
Here's an example of a wildcard filter (Lucene 1.9) ...
public class WildcardTermFilter
extends Filter {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
protected BitSet bits = null;
private String field;
private String value;
public WildcardTermFilter(String field, String value) {
this.field = field;
this.value = value;
}
public BitSet bits(IndexReader reader)
throws IOException {
bits = new BitSet(reader.maxDoc());
TermDocs termDocs = reader.termDocs();
WildcardTermEnum wildEnum = new WildcardTermEnum(reader, new
Term(field, value));
for (Term term = null; (term = wildEnum.term()) != null;
wildEnum.next()) {
termDocs.seek(term);
while (termDocs.next()) {
bits.set(termDocs.doc());
}
}
return bits;
}
}
Hope this helps
Erick
On 10/16/06, vasu shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have have multiple fields that I need to search on. All these fields
need to support wildcard search. I am ANDing these search fields using
BooleanQuery. There is no need for score in my search.
How do I implement these. I have seen PrefixFilter and it sounds
promising. But then how do I implement search for multiple fields (AND) and
using PrefixFilter. I could not find any discussion related to these.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Vasu
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