Just a thought - this looks like it could be due to the regexp (/pattern/
syntax) support added, but that was added in Lucene 4.0 so it doesn't quite fit
that it would be a difference between 4.1 and 4.2.1.
Erik
On May 19, 2013, at 14:50 , Scott Smith wrote:
> 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
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