How to query neo4j lucene index with field grouping via REST? - lucene

We have data in our graph that is indexed by Lucene and need to query it with a
Field Grouping
The example in the link above shows the Lucene syntax to be:
title:(+return +"pink panther")
I can't figure out how to send a request like that via http to the REST interface. Specifically, the space in the second term is causing me problems.
Our data is actually a list and I need to match on multiple items:
regions:(+asia +"north america")
Anyone have any ideas?
Update: For the record, the following url encoded string works for this particular query:
regions%3A%28%2Basia+%2B%22north+america%22%29

Isn't it enough to just URL encode the query using java.net.URLEncoder or something?

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Is there a way to properly experiment with Solr field-types?

I'm working with Solr for a basic search engine, and I've created a couple different fieldTypes that include various filters and tokenizers in their analyzer chains.
However, I'm finding it very difficult to assess how these components of the chain interact and when I query in the Solr Admin, I consistently get different results than I expect-- with no clue as to why.
Is there a way to see what a phrase like education:"x university" is being transformed into when I type it in the q section of the Admin?
Also, when the phrase goes through the chain can it be transformed into multiple things that are all searched or is it just a single modified phrase?
Thanks for any help!
Use Analysis in Solr Admin to check how each field and its type process the tokens both while querying and indexing.
Analyse Fieldname / FieldType:
from the drop down option select field/type that you want to analyse and clieck on Analyse values.
ex: what tokenizer used, which all filter classes applied to token and how token is transformed after passing each filter class.
if
Verbose Output is checked, it shows more details about each filter class used for the selected field/type.

Lucene: Accessing payloads of results of a query

When I'm searching for a query in Lucene, I receive a list of documents as result. But how can I get the hits within those documents? I want to access the payload of those word, which where found by the query.
If your query contains only one term you can simply use TermPositions to access the payload of this term. But if you have a more complex query with Phrase Search, Proximity Search, ... you can't just search for the single terms in TermPositions.
I would like to receive a List<Token>, TokenStream or something similiar, which contains all the Tokens that were found by the query. Then I can iterate over the list and access the payload of each Token.
I solved my problem by using SpanQueries. Nearly every Query can be expressed as SpanQuery. A SpanQuery gives access to the spans where the hit within a document is. Because the normal QueryParser doesn`t produce SpanQueries, I had to write my own parser which only creates SpanQueries. Another option would be the SurroundParser from Lucene-Contrib, which also creates SpanQueries.
I think you'll want to start by looking at the Lucene Highlighter, as it highlights the matching terms in the document.

Alfresco: Lucene query by ID returns 2 rows

I'm using Alfresco 3.4d and imported some nodes as well as created a few with NodeService. Today I noticed that a Lucene query by ID does sometimes return two rows instead of just one. Not all nodes show this kind of behavior.
For example, when I execute the following Lucene query in the Alfresco Node Browser, I get the result shown below: ID:"workspace://SpacesStore/96c0cc27-cb8c-49cf-977d-a966e5c5e9ca"
How is it even possible that a query by ID can return more than one row? I tried rebuilding the Lucene index, but it didn't help. When I delete the node, the query returns 0 rows. What can I do to remove those "ghost" nodes from the query result?
I also ran across this problem and asked the Alfresco support for advice. They told me that it is perfectly normal to have duplicate entries in the lucene ID field and that this is related to whether there is an ANCESTOR present or not. They recommended using the sys:node-uuid field when doing a lucene search for the node's ID, e.g.:
#sys\:node-uuid:f13a21dd-b020-4c70-aa21-1a0e5c89d42b
I've seen this problem since Alfresco 3.2r, but maybe it is even older! I used the Lucene index Viewer "Luke" (http://www.getopt.org/luke/) to check the index directly and I saw that the corrupt index entry contains almost no information. As workaround we combined our search to some basic information like node type or aspect. I will ask a colleague if he has more information about this.
I don't know directly how this is possible but in your 'code' where you retrieve the nodes you could always do: if node.isDocument or node.isContainer to get true result or type is cm:content or cm:folder.
You could also try to re-index, but I doubt that will be of any help

determine which value produced a hit in SOLR multivalued field type

If I have a multiValued field type of text, and I put values [cat,dog,green,blue] in it. Is there a way to tell when I execute a query against that field for dog, that it was in the 1st element position for that multiValued field?
Assumption: client does not have any pre-knowledge of what the field type of the field being queried is. (i.e. Solr must provide the answer and the client can't post process the return doc to figure it out because it would not know how SOLR matched the query to the result).
Disclosure: I posted to solr-user list and am getting no traction so I post here now.
Currently, there's no out-of-the-box functionality provided in Solr which tells you the position of a value in a multiValue field.
Hopefully I understand your question correctly.
If you want to get field index or value there is an ugly workaround:
You could add the index directly in the value e.g. store "1; car", "2; test" and so on. Then use highlighting. When reading the returned fields simply skip the text before the semicolon.
But if you want to query only one type:
You can avoid the multivalue approach and simply store it as item_i and query via item_1. To query against all items regardless the type you need to use the copyField directive in the schema.xml
The Lucene API allows for this, but I'm not sure if Solr does out of the box. In Lucene you can use the IndexReader.termPositions(Term term) method.

How do I use native Lucene Query Syntax?

I read that Lucene has an internal query language where one specifies : and you make combinations of these using boolean operators.
I read all about it on their website and it works just fine in LUKE, I can do things like
field1:value1 AND field2:value2
and it will return seemingly correct results.
My problem is how do I pass this who Lucene query into the API? I've seen QueryParser, but I have to specifiy a field. Does this mean I still have to manually parse my input string, fields, values, parenthesis, etc or is there a way to feed the whole thing in and let lucene do it's thing?
I'm using Lucene.NET but since it's a method by method port of the orignal java, any advice is appreciated.
Are you asking whether you need to force your user to enter the field? If so, the query parser has a default field. Here's a little more info. As long as you have a default field that will do the job, they don't need to specify fields.
If you're asking how to get a Query object from the String, you need the parse method. It understands about fields, and the default field, etc. mentioned earlier. You just need to make sure that the query parser and the index builder are both using the same analysis.