Hey did you manage to find a solution?

No man. I didn't please let me know if you find one.

No documentation on this but the work around was putting the wildcards in the search term *searchterm*

Hi Guys!

Just figured I'll share the solution that I came up with. As far as I understand the the abstractions used in Examine don't exponse the configuration in a obvious way (probably for some good reason), so we need to do some casting before we can set the AllowLeadingWildcard-setting.

We can do this in two ways,

Either by casting the ISearcher from the .GetSearcher()-method to BaseLuceneSearcher which exposes a .CreateQuery()-method that takes the LuceneSearchOptions():

var index = ExamineManager.Instance.Indexes.Where(f => f.Name == "ExternalIndex").FirstOrDefault();
var searcher = (BaseLuceneSearcher)index.GetSearcher();
var query = searcher.CreateQuery("content", BooleanOperation.And, searcher.LuceneAnalyzer, new LuceneSearchOptions() { AllowLeadingWildcard = true });

Or by casting the query:

var index = ExamineManager.Instance.Indexes.Where(f => f.Name == "ExternalIndex").FirstOrDefault();
var searcher = index.GetSearcher();

var query = (LuceneSearchQueryBase)searcher.CreateQuery("content");
query.QueryParser.AllowLeadingWildcard = true;

This will allow the leading wild card in the terms which is the first thing we need to do.

Next we can create a IExamineValue that contains the leading wildcard, one might think something like this would work:

query.And().Field("nodeName", "*term*");

But in the processing of the string the *-s will be stripped out in the generated lucene-query so we have two options here as well:

Use the .MultipleCharacterWildcard() string extension and making sure that the string we pass contains the leading *

var value = "*" + "term"; // leading wildcard and term
query.And().Field("nodeName", value.MultipleCharacterWildcard());

Or pass a IExamineValue for the fieldValue to create "your own" IExamineValue:

query.And().Field("nodeName", new ExamineValue(Examineness.ComplexWildcard, "*term*"));

Hope my little research on the topics helps to clearify =D

Thanks for the detailed response Markus i will try it and i ll let you know for the results.

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