Literal Contains Implementation Details

Works the same as contains but uses the literal property value enabling searches on special characters.

Algorithm:

The Literal Contains search has the following characteristics:

• This search is case in-sensitive. 
• It searches on the literal property.  
• A trailing wild card is added to each token in the search text.
• The literal property part (without the wild cards) of the query is boosted by 50.  This gives a literal match priority.

• Parsing is done with the following analyzer:

  • literal_propertyValue - Uses our custom literal analyzer.  This literal analyzer uses Lucene's WhitespaceTokenizer with Lucene's LowerCaseFilter.

   

Example of use:

The following examples are based on the Automobiles coding scheme.

Example 1:

Search string: a^s

Lucene query: +literal_propertyValue:a^s* literal_propertyValue:a\^s^50.0

Result: 1 result

• entity code: SpecialCharactersConcept
• entity description: Concept containing special characters

Example 2:

Search string: a^s sp*cial co{nce]pt

Lucene query: +(+literal_propertyValue:a^s* +literal_propertyValue:sp*cial* +literal_propertyValue:co{nce]pt*) ((+literal_propertyValue:a\^s +literal_propertyValue:sp\*cial +literal_propertyValue:co\{nce\]pt)^50.0)

Result: 1 result

• entity code: SpecialCharactersConcept
• entity description: Concept containing special characters

Associated JUnits:

Junit tests can be found here: https://github.com/lexevs/lexevs/blob/master/lbTest/src/test/java/org/LexGrid/LexBIG/Impl/function/query/lucene/searchAlgorithms/TestLiteralContains.java