Escape Special Characters for Lucene

[Jon Wynveen]

I did a query with brackets ([]) in it and was returned a Lucene.Net.QueryParsers.ParseException, since the brackets are reserved characters for range queries.

Based on the quick search I did, Lucene has a parser to escape those characters: http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t86124.html. Should Raven be using that by default, or are we as the user expected to escape our queries?

[Jon Wynveen]

Should have searched here for an answer before posting: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/ravendb/escape$20special$20characters/ravendb/WABevNcXkfA/Xva00ftV23UJ

Is there anyway to set a query to escape all search terms by default? Something like:

_ravenSession.Advanced.LuceneQuery<object, SiteSearchIndexTask>().UsingDefaultParser(RavenQuery.Escape)

[Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)]

Do NOT use Where() for that, if you use the default WhereEquals, etc API for Lucene Query, it will escape the values for you.

[Jon Wynveen]

Good to know. Thanks!