Handling Lucene query parser errors

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My application takes a user inputted string and tries to parse it with the Lucene query parser. I noticed however that there are several formats of strings that provoke an error in this query parser.
e.g.:

~anystring
anystring +

First I tried molding my user inputted string so that it could not contain these cases, but as I see it, there could be more cases I do not foresee now.

How do you handle Query parser exceptions? How do you prevent them?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:01:24Z

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We catch the remaining parse exceptions and display an error message ("Your search did not match any documents. Suggestion: Try different keywords.").

See also How to make the Lucene QueryParser more forgiving?

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Boris Callens Over a year ago

Hmm, yes, this is the most obvious way to go. But I would think that some common cases would be solved by the query parser itselve. But maybe that shouldn't be it's resposibility indeed.

double-beep · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-25 10:57:50Z

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query.replace(/([\!\*\+\&\|\(\)\[\]\{\}\^\~\?\:\"\/])/g, "");

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Alex Meuer Over a year ago

Can you provide more information / context in your answer?

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