WildcardQuery error in Solr

Question

I use solr to search for documents and when trying to search for documents using this query \"id:*\", I get this query parser exception telling that it cannot parse

Answer 1

Lucene doesn't allow you to start WildcardQueries with an asterisk by default, because those are incredibly expensive queries and will be very, very, very slow on large indexes.

If you're using the Lucene QueryParser, call setAllowLeadingWildcard(true) on it to enable it.

If you want all of the documents with a certain field set, you are much better off querying or walking the index programmatically than using QueryParser. You should really only use QueryParser to parse user input.