Thank you Erik and Jack.

I opened a JIRA issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4834
I wish a will have time to sumbit a patch file soon.


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote:

> (Erik: Or he can get the LucidWorks Search product and then use "near" and
> "before" operators so that he doesn't need the surround query parser!)
>
> -- Jack Krupansky
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:11 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SurroundQParser does not analyze the query text
>
>
> The issue can certainly be "solved".  But to me, it's actually a bit of a
> "feature" by design for the Lucene-level surround query parser to not do
> analysis, as it seems to have been meant for advanced query writers to
> piece together sophisticated SpanQuery-based pattern matching kinds of
> things utilizing their knowledge of how text was analyzed and indexed.
>
> But for sure it could be modified to do analysis, probably using the
> "multiterm" analyzer feature in there now elsewhere now.  I looked into
> this when I did the basic work of integrating the surround query parser,
> and determined it was a lot of work because it'd need changes in the Lucene
> level code to leverage analysis, and then glue at the Solr level to be
> field type aware and savvy.
>
> By all means open and JIRA and contribute!
>
> Workaround?  Client-side calls can be made to analyze text, and the
> client-side could build up a query expression based on term-by-term (or
> phrase) analysis results.  Maybe that means a prohibitive number of
> requests to Solr to build up a query in a way that leverages Solr's field
> type analysis settings, but it is a technologically possible technique
> maybe worth considering.
>
> Erik
>
>
>
> On May 16, 2013, at 16:38 , Isaac Hebsh wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to use Surround Query Parser for two reasons, which are not
>> covered by proximity slops:
>> 1. find documents with two words within a given distance, *unordered*
>> 2. given two lists of words, find documents with (at least) one word from
>> list A and (at least) one word from list B, within a given distance.
>>
>> The surround query parser looks great, but it have one big drawback - It
>> does not analyze the query text. It is documented in the [weak :(] wiki
>> page.
>>
>> Can this issue be solved somehow, or it is a bigger constraint?
>> Should I open a JIRA issue for this?
>> Any work-around?
>>
>
>

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