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
> >
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