No filters are applied to wildcard/fuzzy searches.
I couldn't find a reference to this on either the solr or lucene
documentation but I read it on the Solr book from PACKT
On 10/05/2009 12:09 PM, Angel Ice wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have a little question regarding the search engine when a wildcard character
is used in the query.
Let's take the following example :
- I have sent in indexation the word Hésitation (with an accent on the "e")
- The filters applied to the field that will handle this word, result in the indexation of
"esit" (the mute H is suppressed (home made filter), the accent too (IsoLatin1Filter),
and the SnowballPorterFilter suppress the "ation".
When i search for "hesitation", "esitation", "ésitation" etc ... all is OK, the
document is returned.
But as soon as I use a wildcard, like "hésita*", the document is not returned. In fact, I
have to put the wildcard in a manner that match the indexed term exactly (example "esi*")
Does the search engine applies the filters to the word that prefix the wildcard
? Or does it use this prefix verbatim ?
Thanks for you help.
Laurent
