I think you are looking for a "free text" query parser. Essentially, it would use the analyzer chain, but then turn the token stream into a query tree. Very useful if you are searching for a band named "+/-".
wunder On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : I think the answer to my question is contained in the wiki when discussing > : the SynonymFilter, "The Lucene QueryParser tokenizes on white space before > : giving any text to the Analyzer". This would indeed explain what I am > : getting. Next question - can I avoid that behavior? > > it's the nature of the lucene query parser -- whitespace is a "meta > character" that provides instructions to the parse, just like '+', '\', > '"', etc... > > you could always use a quoted string (so the parser treats all of your > input as one phrase) or try the "field" QParser (which is essentailly the > same thing as using a quoted phrase but doesn't require the quotes, or > respect any of the other escape characters) > > > > -Hoss >
