Polina Litvak writes: > Hi Daniel, > > I just downloaded the latest version of Lucene and tried the whole thing > again: I ran my code first with lucene-1.3-final.jar, getting the query > Field:(A AND -(B)) parsed into +Field:A -Field:B, and then I ran exactly > the same code with lucene-1.4.1.jar and got the output parsed into > Field:A Field:- Field:B. > > I also read Lucene's documentation (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/* > checkout*/jakarta-lucene/CHANGES.txt?rev=1.85), and it does mention a > change to the "+" and "-" operators: > > 13. Changed QueryParser.jj to allow '-' and '+' within tokens: > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27491 > (Morus Walter via Otis) > This change is unlikely to introduce the behaviour you describe, since it affects '-' within words only, not at start. So there is a change for a-b between 1.3 and 1.4 1.3 gives a -b 1.4 gives "a b" or one token a-b (depending on the analyzer) as it treats the - as part of a word.
> > So is this behaviour a bug, or Lucene1.4 is not backwards compatible? > Your behaviour cannot be seen from the test code (as Daniel already said): java -cp lucene-1.3-final/lucene-1.3-final.jar org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser 'Field:(A AND -(B))' +Field:a -Field:b java -cp lucene-1.4-final/lucene-1.4-final.jar org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser 'Field:(A AND -(B))' +Field:a -Field:b java -cp lucene-1.4.1/lucene-1.4.1.jar org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser 'Field:(A AND -(B))' +Field:a -Field:b So either you have a different query or something in your code is responsable for the problem. Morus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
