Thanks for the info. I'll have a try and see how the results are.
Since the names of the string fields are not predefined I might have to
find a method to do this automatically.
I'll try a few more workarounds and see what the results turn out to be.
Regards,
Indika
On 29 March 2010 06:57, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to get filter querying to work on search.
> > When the filter query contains no special character or is a
> > single word the
> > filter query parameter returns the result as expected.
> > However when I run filter query where special characters
> > are present no
> > results are results.
> >
> > e.g Cameras & Photos, I removed the & character as
> > well (Cameras and Photos)
> > and still no results are returned.
> >
> > However for a string like Electronics the results are
> > returned as expected.
> >
> > I am using the string field to store and index the field
> > that I want to
> > filter and SolrJ as the client.
> >
> > From the documentation I read solrJ automatically escapes
> > special
> > characters.
>
> With SolrJ you don't need to urlencode. However you still need to escape
> special query syntax parameters. Can you try this:
>
> SolrQuery.addFilterQuery("yourStringField:Cameras\\ \\&\\ Photos")
>
>
>
>
