Thanks Erik for responding. Hoss explained the behavior with nice corollaries here - http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/8bc351d408f24cf6/tokenizer_question
Cheers Avlesh On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Avlesh Singh wrote: > > >>> It is in the source code of QueryParser's getFieldQuery(String field, >>> String queryText) method line#660. If numTokens > 1 it returns Phrase >>> Query. >>> >>> That's exactly the question. Would be nice to hear from someone as to >> why is >> it that way? >> > > Suppose you indexed "Foo Bar". It'd get indexed as two tokens [foo] > followed by [bar]. Then someone searches for foo-bar, which would get > analyzed into two tokens also. A PhraseQuery is the most logical thing for > it to turn into, no? > > What's the alternative? > > Of course it's tricky business though, impossible to do the right thing for > all cases within SolrQueryParser. Thankfully it is pleasantly subclassable > and overridable for this method. > > Erik > >
