[LUCENE-6824] TermAutomatonQuery should rewrite to a simpler query when possible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 6.4, 7.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Michael McCandless
• Reporter: Michael McCandless
• Created: 04/Oct/15 18:29
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:43
• Resolved: 07/Nov/16 10:54

Description

Spinoff from LUCENE-6664.

I think TermAutomatonQuery would be easier to integrate into query parsers if you could simply use it always and it would rewrite to simpler / faster queries when possible.

This way, when a query parser is confronted with a phrase query requested by the user, it can just make a TermAutomatonQuery and run that.

But the non-explicit phrase query case is still tricky...