Since you say you're new, I'll risk stating the obvious <G>. Do you know about the BooleanQuery class?
But do note that the TermQuery isn't quite what you might expect. For instance, making a TermQuery from the string "this is junk" is different from making three TermQuery objects, one for each word. If that's confusing, it'll save you some grief if you understand why before pushing on..... But do pay attention to Erik's response. The QueryParser will give you surprising results if, say, there's a colon in the data the user typed in. And manually making TermQueries will give you surprising results if you case differently......... Best Erick On 7/25/07, Joe Attardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Apologies for the cryptic subject line, but I couldn't think of a more > descriptive one-liner to describe my problem/question to you all. Still > fairly new to Lucene here, although I'm hoping to have more of a clue once > I > get a chance to read "Lucene In Action". > > I am implementing a search engine using Lucene for a web application. It > is > not really a free-text search like some other, more standard > implementations. > The requirement is for the search to be as easy and user-friendly as > possible, so instead of specifying the field to search in the query itself > - > such as ip:192.168.102.230 - and being parsed with QueryParser, the field > is > being selected via a HTML <select> element, and the search keywords are > entered in a text field. > > As far as I can tell, I basically have two options: > (1) Manually prepend the field identifier to the query text, for example: > String fullQuery = field + ":" + queryText; > then parse this query normally with QueryParser, OR > (2) Since I know it is only going to be searching one term, manually > create > a TermQuery with a Term object representing what the user typed in, for > example: > Query query = new TermQuery(new Term(field, queryText)); > > Is there any advantage or disadvantage to any of these, or is one > preferable > over the other? My gut tells me that directly creating the TermQuery is > more > efficient since it doesn't have to perform parsing, but I'm not sure. > > I have other questions, too, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. One > at > a time... :) > > Appreciate any help you all might have! > > -- > Joe Attardi >
