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Peter Sturge commented on SOLR-2438:
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If you're like me, you may have often wondered why MyTerm, myterm, myter* and
MyTer* can return different, and sometimes empty results.
This patch addresses this for wildcard queries by adding an attribute to
relevant solr.TextField entries in schema.xml.
The new attribute is called: {{ignoreCaseForWildcards}}
Example entry in schema.xml:
{code:title=schema.xml [excerpt]|borderStyle=solid}
<fieldType name="text_lcws" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"
ignoreCaseForWildcards="true">
<analyzer type="index">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
<analyzer type="query">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt"
ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
</analyzer>
</fieldType>
{code}
It's worth noting that this will lower-case text for ALL terms that match the
field type - including synonyms and stemmers.
For backward compatibility, the default behaviour is as before - i.e. a case
sensitive wildcard search ({{ignoreCaseForWildcards=false}}).
The patch was created against the lucene_solr_3_1 branch. I've not applied it
yet on trunk.
[caveat emptor] I freely admit I'm no schema expert, so commiters and community
members may see use cases where this approach could pose problems. I'm all for
feedback to enhance the functionality...
The hope here is to re-ignite enthusiasm for case-insensitive wildcard searches
in Solr - in line with the 'it just works' Solr philosophy.
Enjoy!
> Case Insensitive Search for Wildcard Queries
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>
> Key: SOLR-2438
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2438
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Peter Sturge
> Attachments: SOLR-2438.patch
>
>
> This patch adds support to allow case-insensitive queries on wildcard
> searches for configured TextField field types.
> This patch extends the excellent work done Yonik and Michael in SOLR-219.
> The approach here is different enough (imho) to warrant a separate JIRA issue.
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