Wildcard star * doesn't work as expected

[MartinMa]

The current implementation for wildcard * does not comply with the Lucene Syntax "specification".

The docs state the following:

Implements the wildcard search query. Supported wildcards are *, which matches any
character sequence (including the empty one), and ?, which matches any single
character. '\' is the escape character.

Source: https://github.com/apache/lucene/blob/branch_9_4/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java
Source: https://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html

However, liqe treats * as an arbitrary character sequence of minimum length 1. While as per documentation, an empty character sequence is allowed as well.

I know that liqe is just a "Lucene-like" parser, serializer and search engine. But I wonder if this design choice was on purpose or by accident?

I would like to adjust the search engine to comply with the standard in this subject.

How do you think about it?

I know that it would mean a breaking change. But you could bump the version number.

An alternative solution would be that the filter function takes a config param and the standard behavior can be activated with some sort of strict flag.