Hi all,

I'm trying to create a fairly complex query, and having trouble constructing it.

My index contains a TextField with place names as strings, e.g.:
        Port Melbourne, VIC 3207

I'm using an analyzer with just KeywordTokenizer and LowerCaseFilter, so that 
my strings are not tokenized at all.

I want to support end-user searches like the following, and have them match 
that string above:
        Port Melbourne, VIC 3207 (exact)
        Port (prefix)
        Port Mel (prefix, including a space)
        Melbo (wildcard)
        Melburne (fuzzy)

I'm trying to get away with not parsing the query myself, and just constructing 
something like this:
        parser.parse( "(STRING^9) OR (STRING*^7) OR (*STRING*^5) OR 
(STRING~1^3) );

That doesn't seem to work, neither with QueryParser nor with 
ComplexPhraseQueryParser.  Specifically, I'm having trouble getting appropriate 
results when there's a space in the input string, notable with the wildcard 
match part (it ends up returning everything in the index).

Is my approach above possible?  I also have had a look at using specific Query 
implementations and combining them in a BooleanQuery, but I'm not quite sure 
how to replicate the "OR" behavior I want (from reading, Occur.SHOULD is not 
equivalent or "OR").


Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Ross




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