[SOLR-1250] Seach the words having ampersand (&) symbol

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.3
• Component/s: search

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Secpath
• Created: 26/Jun/09 15:36
• Updated: 10/May/13 10:40
• Resolved: 26/Jun/09 15:42

Description

I am indexing titles in my index.My titles can also have special characters like (+ - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : )

When i am querieing the index to search with the matching titles , I am using the escape sequence '\'
as per the doc http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_3_2/queryparsersyntax.html

It looks fine for most the case except for when the title consists of the character '&' or '&&'

The query I used to search the index is as below in normal cases...

http://myurl/solr/mdrs/select/?q=title:someTitle

How do I search my index to get the titles like "jakarta & apache"

I tried by giving the below query

http://myurl/solr/mdrs/select/?q=title:jakarta & apache

http://myurl/solr/mdrs/select/?q=title:"jakarta & apache"

http://myurl/solr/mdrs/select/?q=title:jakarta \& apache

http://myurl/solr/mdrs/select/?q=title:"jakarta \& apache"

Each of the above queries are giving errors... Unable to search my title "jakarta & apache"

Please let me know how can i search the words having ampersand (&) character