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Solr Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Rafal Kuc
Book Image

Solr Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Rafal Kuc

Overview of this book

This book is for intermediate Solr Developers who are willing to learn and implement Pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions. This edition will specifically appeal to developers who wish to quickly get to grips with the changes and new features of Apache Solr 5.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Solr Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Handling user queries without errors


When building an application that uses Solr, we usually pass the query that the user sent to Solr. Sometimes, we even allow users to send complex queries that contain Lucene special characters. Due to this, there are situations where the user provides malformed queries, and thus, Solr throws an exception when running such queries. We can alter this behavior by using a new query parser called Simple. This recipe will show you how to do this.

Getting ready

Before continuing to read this recipe, I suggest reading the Understanding and using the Lucene query language recipe from this chapter.

How to do it...

Let's look into how to handle user queries without errors using the following steps:

  1. We start by creating a simple index structure that will allow us to easily illustrate the example. To do this, we place the following section in the schema.xml file:

    <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />
    <field name="title"...