Thanks Alan, Alessandaro and Andrea for your great explanations. I will follow the path of adding edge ngrams to the field type for my use case.
Regards, Salman On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Alessandro Benedetti <abenede...@apache.org > wrote: > "Sounds good but I heard "/suggest" component is the recommended way of > doing auto-complete" > > This sounds fantastic :) > We "heard" that as well, we know what the suggest component does. > The point is that you would like to retrieve the suggestions + some > consistent payload in different fields. > Current suggest component offers some effort in providing a payload, but > almost all the suggester implementation are based on an FST approach which > aim to be as fast and memory efficient as possible. > Honestly you could experiment and even contribute a customisation if you > want to add a new feature to the suggest component able to return complex > payloads together with the suggestions. > Apart that, it strictly depends of how you want to provide the > autocompletion, there are plenty of different lookups implementation and > plenty of tokenizer/token filters to combine . > So I would confirm what we already said and that Andrea confirmed. > > If anyone has played with the suggester suggestions payload, his feedback > is welcome! > > Cheers > > > On 3 December 2015 at 06:21, Andrea Gazzarini <a.gazzar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Salman, > > few months ago I have been involved in a project similar to > > map.geoadmin.ch > > and there, I had your same need (I also sent an email to this list). > > > > From my side I can furtherly confirm what Alan and Alessandro already > > explained, I followed that approach. > > > > IMHO, that is the "recommended way" if the component's features meet your > > needs (i.e. do not reinvent the wheel) but it seems you're out of those > > bounds. > > > > Best, > > Andrea > > On 2 Dec 2015 21:51, "Salman Ansari" <salman.rah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Sounds good but I heard "/suggest" component is the recommended way of > > > doing auto-complete in the new versions of Solr. Something along the > > lines > > > of this article > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Suggester > > > > > > <searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SuggestComponent"> > > > <lst name="suggester"> > > > <str name="name">mySuggester</str> > > > <str name="lookupImpl">FuzzyLookupFactory</str> > > > <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str> > > > <str name="field">cat</str> > > > <str name="weightField">price</str> > > > <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">string</str> > > > <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str> > > > </lst> > > > </searchComponent> > > > > > > Can someone confirm this? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Salman > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Alessandro Benedetti < > > > abenede...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Salman, > > > > I agree with Alan. > > > > Just configure your schema with the proper analysers . > > > > For the field you want to use for suggestions you are likely to need > > > simply > > > > this fieldType : > > > > > > > > <fieldType name="text_suggestion" class="solr.TextField" > > > > positionIncrementGap="100"> > > > > <analyzer type="index"> > > > > <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> > > > > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > > > > <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" > minGramSize="1" > > > > maxGramSize="20"/> > > > > </analyzer> > > > > <analyzer type="query"> > > > > <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> > > > > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > > > > </analyzer> > > > > </fieldType> > > > > > > > > This is a very sample example, please adapt it to your use case. > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > On 2 December 2015 at 09:41, Alan Woodward <a...@flax.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Salman, > > > > > > > > > > It sounds as though you want to do a normal search against a > special > > > > > 'suggest' field, that's been indexed with edge ngrams. > > > > > > > > > > Alan Woodward > > > > > www.flax.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2 Dec 2015, at 09:31, Salman Ansari wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I am looking for auto-complete in Solr but on top of just auto > > > > complete I > > > > > > want as well to return the data completely (not just > suggestions), > > > so I > > > > > > want to get back the ids, and other fields in the whole > document. I > > > > tried > > > > > > the following 2 approaches but each had issues > > > > > > > > > > > > 1) Used the /suggest component but that returns a very specific > > > format > > > > > > which looks like I cannot customize. I want to return the whole > > > > document > > > > > > that has a matching field and not only the suggestion list. So > for > > > > > example, > > > > > > if I write "hard" it returns the results in a specific format as > > > > follows > > > > > > > > > > > > <arr name="suggestion"> <str>hard drive</str> > > > > > > <str>hard disk</str> </arr> > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to get back additional fields with suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > > > 2) Tried the normal /select component but that does not do > > > > auto-complete > > > > > on > > > > > > portion of the word. So, for example, if I write the query as > > "bara" > > > it > > > > > > DOES NOT return "barack obama". Any suggestions how to solve > this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Salman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -------------------------- > > > > > > > > Benedetti Alessandro > > > > Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti > > > > > > > > "Tyger, tyger burning bright > > > > In the forests of the night, > > > > What immortal hand or eye > > > > Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" > > > > > > > > William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -------------------------- > > Benedetti Alessandro > Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti > > "Tyger, tyger burning bright > In the forests of the night, > What immortal hand or eye > Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" > > William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England >
