I just upgraded from lucene 4.1 to 4.2.1. We believe we are seeing some
different behavior.
I'm using org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.QueryParser. If I pass the
string "20110920/EXPIRED" (w/o quotes) to the parser, I get:
org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.ParseException: Cannot parse
'20110920/EXPIRED': Lexical error at line 1, column 17. Encountered: <EOF>
after : "/EXPIRED"
at
org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.QueryParserBase.parse(QueryParserBase.java:131)
We believe this used to work.
I tried googling for this and found something that said I should use
QueryParser.escape() on the string before passing it to the parser. However,
that seems to break phrase queries (e.g., "John Smith" - with the quotes; I
assume it's escaping the double-quotes and doesn't realize it's a phrase).
Since it is a forward slash, I'm confused why it would need escaping of any of
the characters in the string with the "/EXPIRED".
Has anyone seen this?
Scott
