Search against both fields (one split, one not split)? Keep original and tokenized form? I am doing something similar with class name autocompletes here: https://github.com/arafalov/Solr-Javadoc/blob/master/JavadocIndex/JavadocCollection/conf/schema.xml#L24
Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Hayden Muhl <haydenm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working on using Solr for autocompleting usernames. I'm running into a > problem with the wildcard queries (e.g. username:al*). > > We are tokenizing usernames so that a username like "solr-user" will be > tokenized into "solr" and "user", and will match both "sol" and "use" > prefixes. The problem is when we get "solr-u" as a prefix, I'm having to > split that up on the client side before I construct a query "username:solr* > username:u*". I'm basically using a regex as a poor man's tokenizer. > > Is there a better way to approach this? Is there a way to tell Solr to > tokenize a string and use the parts as prefixes? > > - Hayden
