One of my favorite quotes from Roger Zelazny... "postulating infinity, the rest is easy".
In this case, "infinity" is how you break up your query. The easy part is making your search return what you want. Assuming you know that you want "greatest" and "hits" to go against the title field and "beatles" to go against description, your query looks something like: +title:greatest +title:hits +description:beatles But knowing you want to break up the query like that is the hard part. Sometimes you can make it work well enough by submitting all terms against both fields with an OR clause, something like: title:(+greatest +hits +beatles) description:(+greatest +hits +beatles) (note, OR is implied between title and description) which would not work in your case. Another technique is to dump all the words into a single uber-field *as well as* your individual fields, so the search uber:(+greatest +hits +beatles) would work for you. Note that if you index (but do NOT store) the uber field and store (but do NOT index) the text and description fields, your index stays about the same size..... Anyway, you need to carefully define how your searches *should* work, then define your index structure IMO. Best Erick On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Kelvin Foo Chuan Lyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to lucene and have a question on how to create a query for the > following example... Say I have two fields, Title and Description, with > the > following data > > Item 1 > Title: The greatest hits > Description : Collection of the best music from The Beatles. > > Item 2 > Title: U2 collections > Description : Greatest hits collection of U2 > > > In my search, I want to search for 'greatest hits beatles'. The result > should return only Item 1.. how should the query looks like?? > > > Thanks. > > > > > -- > Sayonara, > Kelvin >
