Field names with : in it.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:54 PM, samd wrote:


It appears if a search field value entered contains a ':' causes some
issues
since if I have a field named

a.b.c and the user enters a value of foo the constructed query through the
api generates something like
+a.b.c:foo

If they enter in a value of foo:bar

I get +foo:bar where foo is substituted for the correct fieldname.

What is the best way to deal with this?

Thanks.
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You have to escape it in a query. And did you mean to title your
post as field *names*? because I can't imagine how that would
work. Field *values*, sure....

See http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html,
search for "escape"