I'm working on auto completion search with Solr using EdgeNGrams. If the user is searching for names of employees, then auto completion should be applied. That is, I want the results to be like a Google search. It's working fine for some searches.
File schema.xml
:
<fieldType name="edgytext" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" omitNorms="true">
<analyzer type="index">
<tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory" />
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
<filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
<analyzer type="query">
<tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory" />
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
<filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="1" maxGramSize="15" side="front" />
</analyzer>
<field name="title" type="edgytext" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true" omitTermFreqAndPositions="true"/>
<field name="empname" type="edgytext" indexed="true" stored="true" omitNorms="true" omitTermFreqAndPositions="true" />
<field name="autocomplete_text" type="edgytext" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true" omitNorms="true" omitTermFreqAndPositions="false" />
<copyField source="empname" dest="autocomplete_text"/>
<copyField source="title" dest="autocomplete_text"/>
http://local:8080/test/suggest/?q=michael
Result:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<response>
<lst name="responseHeader">
<int name="status">0</int>
<int name="QTime">1</int>
</lst>
<result name="response" numFound="0" start="0" />
<lst name="spellcheck">
<lst name="suggestions">
<lst name="michael">
<int name="numFound">9</int>
<int name="startOffset">0</int>
<int name="endOffset">7</int>
<arr name="suggestion">
<str>michael bolton</str>
<str>michael foret</str>
<str>michael houser</str>
<str>michael o'brien</str>
<str>michael penn</str>
<str>michael row your boat ashore</str>
<str>michael tilson thomas</str>
<str>michael w. smith</str>
<str>michael w. smith featuring andrae crouch</str>
</arr>
</lst>
<str name="collation">michael bolton</str>
</lst>
</lst>
</response>
It's working fine for me. When I search with michael f
http:// local:8080/test/suggest/?q=michael f
I get a response like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<response>
<lst name="responseHeader">
<int name="status">0</int>
<int name="QTime">1</int>
</lst>
<result name="response" numFound="0" start="0" />
<lst name="spellcheck">
<lst name="suggestions">
<lst name="michael">
<int name="numFound">9</int>
<int name="startOffset">0</int>
<int name="endOffset">7</int>
<arr name="suggestion">
<str>michael bolton</str>
<str>michael foret</str>
<str>michael houser</str>
<str>michael o'brien</str>
<str>michael penn</str>
<str>michael row your boat ashore</str>
<str>michael tilson thomas</str>
<str>michael w. smith</str>
<str>michael w. smith featuring andrae crouch</str>
</arr>
</lst>
<lst name="f">
<int name="numFound">10</int>
<int name="startOffset">8</int>
<int name="endOffset">9</int>
<arr name="suggestion">
<str>f**k the facts</str>
<str>fairest lord jesus</str>
<str>fatboy slim</str>
<str>ffh</str>
<str>fiona apple</str>
<str>foo fighters</str>
<str>frank sinatra</str>
<str>frans bauer</str>
<str>franz ferdinand</str>
<str>françois rauber</str>
</arr>
</lst>
<str name="collation">michael bolton f**k the facts</str>
</lst>
</lst>
</response>.
When I search with michael f
then, I should get michael foret
only. Data coming starts with f
. Is there anything wrong in my configuration settings in Solr?