: Why does edismax query reset field exist query to *:*? Is this
: expected behavior or a bug?
:
: Edismax query "q": "{!edismax qf=keywords v='*'}" or in the other
: form "q=*&qf=keywords.en&defType=edismax"
: I expected this to translate into keywords:*
this is an intentional feature of the parser(s) because 99% of the time if
a query string contained a bare '*' (w/o an explicit field, or used as a
suffix on some term) people expect it to mean "match everything")...
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2996
if you had given edismax a query string of 'keywords:*' (and `keywords` is
an allowed user field in the parser configuration) it would have treated
it as a "field 'keywords' contains some term" query. But because the '*'
is bare both edismax and the lucene qparser treat it as the "match all
docs" query regardless of what the respectic qf or df params are.
-Hoss
http://www.lucidworks.com/
