Hello, all! I'm a BloombergBNA employee and need to obtain/write a dtSearch parser for solr (and probably a bunch of other things a little later). I've looked at the available parsers and thought that the surround parser may do the trick, but it apparently doesn't like nested N or W subqueries. I looked at XmlQueryParser and I'm most impressed with it from a functionality perspective. I liked the SpanQueries, but I either don't understand SpanNot or it has a bug for the exclude. At the end of the day, we will need to continue to support dtSearch syntax. I may as well just bite the bullet and write the dtSearch parser and include it as a patch for Solr.
Here are my immediate issues: - I don't know the best path forward on making the parser (I saw something in the HowToContribute page at the bottom about JFlex) - Can someone please take pity on me and help me get started down this path? I probably won't need a lot of help. - I'm great at .NET, not so much Java--yet. I've not yet been able to build a trunk and "deploy" it (I can build it and run tests, but not run it--I'm sure I'm just missing an elusive documentation link on how to do that) - I downloaded and got the solr trunk in Eclipse. I'm not sure the best way of adding unit tests for my stuff--do I add it to an existing subdirectory or create a new package? I think it'd be great if I could get a bare-bones example of a parser so that I can modify it--perhaps even keeping it in a separate Java project. Don't feel like you have to answer all of my questions--an answer to any of them would be quite helpful. Thank you guys and God bless!
