In this case also, You may need to index the fields separately. This will give better control. Have a parser, which splits the terms and applies * to the end. Search using the terms.
Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Dirk Reske <d...@studiorga.de> wrote: > No, we don't want to user to write the * itself. > And seperate fields for the first and the last name are also not > acceptable. > > Image all the social networks, where you type a part of a name into the > textbox, and get all people whose names (first or last) contains one of > your searched words. The user should not be thinking about...just doing > it. > > Dirk > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:00:08 +0530, findbestopensource > <findbestopensou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes. Correct. It would be good, If User inputs the search string with *. > > > > My Idea is to index two fields separately first name and last name. > Provide > > two text boxes with first name and last name. Leave the rest to the User. > > > > Regrads > > Aditya > > www.findbestopensource.com > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Dirk Reske <d...@studiorga.de> wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> we are quite new to lucene. > >> At first we want to create a simple user search for our web application. > >> My first thought was to map die 'display name' (= firstname + lastname) > to > >> a single field (analysed but not stored) > >> and to put the database id of the user to a stored, not analysed field > (but > >> indexed). > >> > >> Then the user should have a simple text box, where he should be able to > >> write the whole name, parts of the name etc... > >> So a search for "jo do" should also return the user "John Doe". How to > >> create the query? > >> > >> My first solution was to tokenize the string using whitespaces an add an > * > >> to each word and then concatenate all the words and use the query > parser, > >> so that the search string would be "jo* do*"...but then I've read, that > I > >> should not programmaticly construct a string and use the queryparser. > >> > >> So what is the right way? > >> > >> Greets > >> Dirk > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >> > >> > > -- > Dirk Reske > Vogelsangstr. 24 > 18437 Stralsund > > mail: d...@studiorga.de > mobile: +(49) 1522 2104741 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
