On Wed, May 8, 2013, at 02:07 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
>
> : I am about to index identfier fields containing blanks (shelfmarks) eg.
> G
> : 23/60 12
> : The field type is set to Solr.string. To get the exact matching hit
> (the doc
> : with shelfmark mentioned above) the user must quote the search term. Is
> there
> : a way to omit the quotes?
>
> whitespace has to be quoted when using the lucene QParser because it's a
> semanticly significant character that means "end boolean query clause"
>
> if you want to search for a literal string w/o needing any escaping, use
> the term QParser...
>
> {!term f=yourFieldName}G 23/60 12
>
> Of course, if you are putting this in a URL (ie: testing in a browser) it
> still needs to be URL escaped...
>
> /select?q={!term+f=yourFieldName}G+23/60+12
I'm surprised you didn't offer the improvement (a technique I learned
from you..:-) ):
/select?q={!term f=yourFieldName v=$productCode}&productCode=G 23/60 12
which allows you to present the code as a separate request parameter.
Upayavira
