[Xapian-discuss] Omega and Wildcards

[Richard Boulton]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> I made the following changes to Omega, per the instructions in
> 
> http://www.xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html,
> 
> and wildcards do not work at all.  I'm hoping its something simple.
> 
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omega DB=pdf P=finan\*
> (with or without the backslash)
> 
> returns no documents, even though there are over 3000 hits for
> 'finance', about the same for 'financial', and probably more.

(I'm assuming your diff is reversed, so that "-" lines are those which 
you added.  If that's wrong, I'm very confused.)

It looks like you've changed the flags for the query parser 
"parse_query" invocation correctly.  However, you've moved the 
"qp.set_database(db)" call to after this invocation.  As a result, the 
wildcard expansion code can't lookup the terms in the database, so you 
end up with no matches.

I expect it will work if you move the set_database() call back to its 
original location.

-- 
Richard