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

The following Solr issue is a request to be able to configure the default lucene query parser. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-218

In this issue you can find the following description how to 'patch' Solr. This modification would allow you to start queries with a *.

Jonas Salk: I've basically updated only one Java file: SolrQueryParser.java.

public SolrQueryParser(IndexSchema schema, String defaultField) { 
    ... 
    setAllowLeadingWildcard(true); 
    setLowercaseExpandedTerms(true); 
    ... 
}

 ...

public SolrQueryParser(QParser parser, String defaultField, Analyzer analyzer) {
    ... 
    setAllowLeadingWildcard(true); 
    setLowercaseExpandedTerms(true);
    ... 
}

I'm not sure if setLowercaseExpandedTerms is needed...