On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <m...@pooteeweet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have implemented a facet search, where users essentially select what should
> not be included. I do this by constructing an fq filter where I match for the
> deselected items that I then negate:
> $fq = "{!tag=dt}!($fq)";
> $criteria->addParam('fq', $fq);
>
> Now in some cases the field the user is deselecting is actually an empty
> string.
>
> For example go to the below address and open the "legal value" section. there
> is an option "none" there, which is actually an empty string.
> http://search.un-informed.org/search?q=malaria&=&tm=any&s=Search
>
> The field itself is just an untokenized string. Of course I could just turn
> an empty string into "none" at index time, but I am wondering how to do it in
> general :)
>
> I tried using just "" or ["" TO ""] to match for empty strings, but this
> matches everything and due to the negation removes everything.
Hmmm, if this is on a String field, it seemed to work for me.
http://localhost:8983/solr/select?debugQuery=on&q=foo_s:"";
The raw query parser would also work (it skips analysis):
http://localhost:8983/solr/select?debugQuery=on&q={!raw f=foo_s}
But yes, indexing differently may be easier for you... either by
indexing a special token for _NONE_
or by leaving out the value completely (not indexing it), and using
facet.missing=true and filtering for none via fq=-myfield:[* TO *]
-Yonik
http://www.lucidimagination.com
