Forums » Ferret » Using QueryParser vs building my own query

Hello all

I finally caved in and decided I should build my own query instead of 
relying on QueryParser to do the job for me, but I've hit a strange 
problem..

Here's how I build my query:

#Main query
query = Ferret::Search::BooleanQuery.new

#Build query to match types
typesquery = Ferret::Search::BooleanQuery.new
@selected_types.each{|type|
  typesquery.add_query(
    Ferret::Search::TermQuery.new(Ferret::Index::Term.new('type', 
type)),
    Ferret::Search::BooleanClause::Occur::SHOULD
  )
}

#Add types query to main query
query.add_query(typesquery, Ferret::Search::BooleanClause::Occur::MUST)

#Build query to match content and title
contenttitlequery = Ferret::Search::BooleanQuery.new
contenttitlequery.add_query(
  Ferret::Search::TermQuery.new(Ferret::Index::Term.new('content', 
params[:query])),
  Ferret::Search::BooleanClause::Occur::SHOULD
)
contenttitlequery.add_query(
  Ferret::Search::TermQuery.new(Ferret::Index::Term.new('title', 
params[:query])),
  Ferret::Search::BooleanClause::Occur::SHOULD
)

#Add content+title query to main query
query.add_query(contenttitlequery, 
Ferret::Search::BooleanClause::Occur::MUST)



The problem is that index.search(query) always gives me 0 results. 
However, if I do index.search(query.to_s) it returns the results I 
expect..

Here's an example output of query.to_s:

+(type:Foo type:Bar) +(content:baz title:baz)

What I'm trying to do is search for items that is of type Foo or Bar and 
has "baz" in either the content or the title.

Does anyone have an idea of what's going on here?


Thanks,
Tore

On 6/27/06, Tore Darell <toredarell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> #Add types query to main query
>   Ferret::Search::TermQuery.new(Ferret::Index::Term.new('title',
> The problem is that index.search(query) always gives me 0 results.
> Does anyone have an idea of what's going on here?
You must have used a lowercasing analyzer. You'll need to lowercase
the "Foo" and "Bar". QueryParser will do that for you. An easy fix.

Cheers,
Dave

David Balmain wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Tore Darell <toredarell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> #Add types query to main query
>>   Ferret::Search::TermQuery.new(Ferret::Index::Term.new('title',
>> The problem is that index.search(query) always gives me 0 results.
>> Does anyone have an idea of what's going on here?
> You must have used a lowercasing analyzer. You'll need to lowercase
> the "Foo" and "Bar". QueryParser will do that for you. An easy fix.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave

You're right, thanks. For some reason I had set the type field to be 
tokenised..

Tore