> We're having difficulty with some wildcard searches in Solr > 4.0Beta. We're using a copyField to write a "tdate" to a > "text_general" field. We are using the default definition > for the "text_general" field type. > > <field name="my_date" type="tdate" > indexed="true" stored="true" /> > <field name="date_text" > type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" /> > > <copyField source="my_date" > dest="date_text"/> > > Here's the sample data it holds: > > 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z > 2010-01-28T00:00:00Z > 2010-01-31T00:00:00Z > > We run these queries and they return the expected results: > > date_text:"2010*" > date_text:"2010-*" > date_text:"2010-01*" > date_text:"2010-01-*" > > However, when we run these, they return nothing. What are we > doing wrong? > > date_text:"*-01-27" > date_text:"2010-*-27" > date_text:"2010-01-27*"
I think in your case you need to use string type instead of text_general. <field name="date_text" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" />
