searching for q terms that start with a dash/hyphen being interpreted as prohibited clauses

[geeky2]

hello

environment: solr 3.5

problem statement:

i have a requirement to search for part numbers that start with a dash /
hyphen.

example q= term: *-0004A-0436*

example query:

http://some_url:some_port/some_core/select?facet=false&sort=score+desc%2C+rankNo+asc%2C+partCnt+desc&start=0&q=*-0004A-0436*+itemType%3A1&wt=xml&qt=itemModelNoProductTypeBrandSearch&rows=4

what is happening: query is returning a huge results set.  in reality there
is one (1) and only one record in the database with this part number.

i believe this is happening because the dash is being interpreted by the
query parser as a prohibited clause and the effective result is, "give me
everything that does NOT have this part number".

how is this handled so that the search is conducted for the actual part:
-0004A-0436

thx
mark

more information:

request handler in solrconfig.xml

  <requestHandler name="itemModelNoProductTypeBrandSearch"
class="solr.SearchHandler" default="false">
    <lst name="defaults">
      <str name="defType">edismax</str>
      <str name="echoParams">all</str>
      <int name="rows">10</int>
      <str name="qf">itemModelNoExactMatchStr^30 itemModelNo^.9
divProductTypeDesc^.8 plsBrandDesc^.5</str>
      <str name="q.alt">*:*</str>
      <str name="sort">score desc, rankNo desc, partCnt desc</str>
      <str name="facet">true</str>
      <str name="facet.field">itemModelDescFacet</str>
      <str name="facet.field">plsBrandDescFacet</str>
      <str name="facet.field">divProductTypeIdFacet</str>
    </lst>
    <lst name="appends">
    </lst>
    <lst name="invariants">
    </lst>
  </requestHandler>


field information from schema.xml (if helpful)

<field name="itemModelNoExactMatchStr" type="text_general_trim"
indexed="true" stored="true"/>
 
<field name="itemModelNo" type="text_en_splitting" indexed="true"
stored="true" omitNorms="true"/>

<field name="divProductTypeDesc" type="text_general_edge_ngram"
indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/>

<field name="plsBrandDesc" type="text_general_edge_ngram" indexed="true"
stored="true" multiValued="true"/>


    <fieldType name="text_general_trim" class="solr.TextField"
positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt"
ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

    <fieldType name="text_en_splitting" class="solr.TextField"
positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>


        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true"
words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory" pattern="\."
replacement="" replace="all"/>
        <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="3"
maxGramSize="15" side="front"/>
        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory"
generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1"
catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="1" splitOnCaseChange="1"
preserveOriginal="1"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.KeywordMarkerFilterFactory"
protected="protwords.txt"/>
        <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>

    <fieldType name="text_general_edge_ngram" class="solr.TextField"
positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true"
words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory"
synonyms="synonyms_SHC.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="3"
maxGramSize="15" side="front"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true"
words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>






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