[Xapian-discuss] 'phrase' default-op mixed with hyphenated words

[Doctor Munchkin]

Hi all,

I've come across an issue caused when I try to set the query parser's
default op to OP_PHRASE: Xapian raises an Unimplemented Error if the
query contains hyphenated words or other terms that implicitly
generate a phrase.

This can be shown with the following Python extract:

>>> from xapian import *
>>> qp = QueryParser()
>>> qp.set_default_op(Query.OP_PHRASE)
>>> print qp.parse_query('John Smith-Jones')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
xapian.UnimplementedError: Can't use NEAR/PHRASE with a subexpression
containing NEAR or PHRASE

I'm using the latest release (1.2.6).

Are there any plans to implement this functionality, or does anyone
have a patch for the query parser that would fix this particular
issue? If not, I guess a good workaround on my side would be to
convert the hyphen in the query to a space if OP_PHRASE is used, which
is essentially what I imagine the query parser should be doing.

Thanks,

Munchkin.