You could also do this outside Solr, in your client. If your query is surrounded by quotes, then strip away the quotes and make q=text_exact_field:your_unquoted_query. Probably better to do outside Solr in general keeping in mind the upgrade path.
-sujit On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Van Tassell, Kristian wrote: > Thank you. > > So essentially I need to write a custom query parser (extending upon > something like the QParser)? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Upayavira [mailto:u...@odoko.co.uk] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:22 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Matching an exact word > > Solr will only match on the terms as they are in the index. If it is stemmed > in the index, it will match that. If it isn't, it'll match that. > > All term matches are (by default at least) exact matches. Only with stemming > you are doing an exact match against the stemmed term. > Therefore, there really is no way to do what you are looking for within Solr. > I'd suggest you'll need to do some parsing at your side and, if you find > quotes, do the query against a different field. > > Upayavira > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013, at 06:17 PM, Van Tassell, Kristian wrote: >> I'm trying to match the word "created". Given that it is surrounded by >> quotes, I would expect an exact match to occur, but instead the entire >> stemming results show for words such as create, creates, created, etc. >> >> q="created"&wt=xml&rows=1000&qf=text&defType=edismax >> >> If I copy the text field to a new one that does not stem words, >> "text_exact" for example, I get the expected results: >> >> q="created"&wt=xml&rows=1000&qf=text_exact&defType=edismax >> >> I would like the decision whether to match exact or not to be >> determined by the quotes rather than the qf parameter (eg, not have to >> use it at all). What topic do I need to look into more to understand >> this? Thanks in advance! >>
