Hi You are searching with 3 characters but the items actually indexed has 4 characters. Use Luke and analyze the index.
If searching for ABC has to be matched with ABCD then you need to do a wildcard search. Add * at the end of the search query (ABC*). Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Edward W. Rouse <ero...@comsquared.com>wrote: > I have an index and one of the items to search for is an identifier that > will always be 3 characters, like ABC or XYZ. If I do a search for ABC I > get > no matches. If I add 1 more character so that ABC becomes ABCD and search > for ABCD, it matches. I have been looking through the code (I inherited and > the original coder is no longer with the company) to see if there is any > place where he might have put a limitation in, but testing indicates that > it > is creating a query. Some code below: > > QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(Version.LUCENE_34, > TaskRecord.BaseFields.PUBLIC_DEFAULT_FIELD.getName(), getAnalyzer()); > parser.setDefaultOperator(Operator.AND); > Query query = parser.parse(qstring); > > qstring is the search text and getAnalyser returns a StandardAnalyzer. > > The Query is then used to search using the following code: > > public List<Long> search(Query query) throws IOException > { > IndexReader reader = null; > try > { > reader = IndexReader.open(getRoot(), true); > IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(reader); > > // Do the search with an artificial limit of 32 results > TopDocs hits = searcher.search(query, 32); > > // If the search actually has more hits, then run it again with > correct max > if(hits.totalHits > 32) > { > if(log.isDebugEnabled()) > { > log.debug("Rerunning query with max size of " + hits.totalHits + > " > " + query); > } > > hits = searcher.search(query, hits.totalHits); > } > > // Create task ID list and return > if(hits.totalHits < 1) > { > if(log.isDebugEnabled()) > log.debug("Query has no hits " + query); > > return Collections.emptyList(); > } > else > { > if(log.isDebugEnabled()) > log.debug("Query has " + hits.totalHits + " hits " + query); > > List<Long> taskIds = new ArrayList<Long>(hits.totalHits); > for(ScoreDoc doc: hits.scoreDocs) > { > taskIds.add(Long.valueOf(searcher.doc(doc.doc).get("task"))); > } > return taskIds; > } > } > finally > { > try > { > if(reader != null) > reader.close(); > } > catch(IOException e) > { > } > } > } > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:18 PM > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: short search terms > > > > > > : I have a key field that will only ever have a length of 3 characters. > > I am > > : using a StandardAnalyzer and a QueryParser to create the Query > > : (parser.parse(string)), and an IndexReader and IndexSearcher to > > execute the > > : query (searcher(query)). I can't seem to find a setter to allow for a > > 3 > > : character search string. There is one setMinWordLen, but it isn't > > applicable > > > > there's a lot of missing information here ... what do you mean "allow > > for > > a 3 character search string" .. the query parser doesn't have anything > > in > > it that would prevent a 3 (or 3, or 1) character search string, so i > > suspect that's not really the question you mean to ask. > > > > what is problem you are actaully seeing? do you have a query that > > isn't > > matching the docs you think it should? what query? what docs? what does > > the code look like? > > > > can you explain more what this 3 character ifeld represents, and how > > you > > want to use it? > > > > https://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem > > Your question appears to be an "XY Problem" ... that is: you are > > dealing > > with "X", you are assuming "Y" will help you, and you are asking about > > "Y" > > without giving more details about the "X" so that we can understand the > > full issue. Perhaps the best solution doesn't involve "Y" at all? > > See Also: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341 > > > > -Hoss > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > >