Looking at the JIRA issue, looks like there's been a new patch related to this. This is good news! We've re-written a portion of our web app to use Solr instead of mysql. This part of our app allows clients to construct rules to match data within their account, and automatically apply actions to those matched data points. So far our testing and then rollout has been smooth, until we encountered the above rule/query. I guess I assumed since these metacharacters were escaped that they would be parsed correctly under any type of query.
What is the likelihood of this being included in the next release/bug fix version of Solr? Are there docs available online with basic information about rolling our own build of Solr that includes this patch? I appreciate your help! Thanks! Stephen On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Stephen Powis <stephen.po...@pardot.com> > wrote: > > I want to return any first name with a Question Mark in it > > Query: first_name: *\?* > > > > There is no way to escape the metacharacters * or ? for a wildcard > query (regardless of queryparser, even if you write your own). > See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-588 > > Its something we could fix, but in all honesty it seems one reason it > isn't fixed is because the bug is so old, yet there hasn't really been > any indication of demand for such a thing... >