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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:35:08 +0200
From: Michael Lackhoff <michael@lackhoff.de>
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Subject: Is semicolon a character that needs escaping?
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According to http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_1/queryparsersyntax.html
only these characters need escaping:
+ - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \
but with this simple query:
TI:stroke; AND TI:journal
I got the error message:
HTTP ERROR: 400
Unknown sort order: TI:journal

My first guess was that it was a URL encoding issue but everything looks
fine:
http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=TI%3Astroke%3B+AND+TI%3Ajournal&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on
as you can see, the semicolon is encoded as %3B
There is no problem when the query ends with the semicolon:
TI:stroke;
gives no error.
The first query also works if I escape the semicolon:
TI:stroke\; AND TI:journal

>From this I conclude that there is a bug either in the docs or in the
query parser or I missed something. What is wrong here?

-Michael