[LUCENE-1951] wildcardquery rewrite improvements

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0
• Component/s: core/query/scoring
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 07/Oct/09 14:41
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:10
• Resolved: 09/Oct/09 01:13

Description

wildcardquery has logic to rewrite to termquery if there is no wildcard character, but

• it needs to pass along the boost if it does this
• if the user asked for a 'constant score' rewriteMethod, it should rewrite to a constant score query for consistency.

additionally, if the query is really a prefixquery, it would be nice to rewrite to prefix query.
both will enumerate the same number of terms, but prefixquery has a simpler comparison function.