Tokenizing and then passing through the query parser sounds reasonable to me. You could build the query yourself, but that will be a bit more work. You could also combine a non-wildcard search with a wildcard search, boosting the first one. So that "John Doe" would score higher than "Johnny Doncaster".
-- Ian. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:39 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
