fieldType "string" is not tokenized, so your observation is correct. You need to use a fieldType with analysis and tokenization to get the behavior you want.
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com 25. juni 2013 kl. 02:35 skrev "Mugoma Joseph O." <mug...@yengas.com>: > > It looks like partial search works only with copied to field. This works: > > $ curl > "http://localhost:8282/solr/links/select?q=text_ngrams:yengas&wt=json&indent=on&fl=id,domain,score" > > On Tue, June 25, 2013 12:39 am, Mugoma Joseph O. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am newbie to solr. >> >> I am trying out partial search (match). My experience is opposite of >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/string-field-does-not-yield-exact-match-result-using-qf-parameter-td4060096.html >> >> When I add 'qf' to to dismax query I get no result unless there's a full >> match. >> >> I am using NGramFilterFactory as follows: >> >> <fieldType name="text_edgengrams" class="solr.TextField"> >> <analyzer type="index"> >> <tokenizer class="solr.LowerCaseTokenizerFactory"/> >> <filter class="solr.NGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="3" >> maxGramSize="15"/> >> </analyzer> >> <analyzer type="query"> >> <tokenizer class="solr.LowerCaseTokenizerFactory"/> >> </analyzer> >> </fieldType> >> >> ... >> >> >> <field name="text_ngrams" type="text_edgengrams" indexed="true" >> stored="false" multiValued="true" /> >> >> ... >> >> <field name="domain" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/> >> >> ... >> >> <copyField source="domain" dest="text_ngrams"/> >> >> >> If I have yengas.com in indexed I can search for yengas.com but not >> yengas. However, If I drop 'qf' I can search for yengas. >> >> >> Example searches: >> >> $ curl >> "http://localhost:8282/solr/links/select?q=domain:yengas&wt=json&indent=on&fl=id,domain,score" >> => "response":{"numFound":0,"start":0,"docs":[] >> >> >> $ curl >> "http://localhost:8282/solr/links/select?q=domain:yengas.com&wt=json&indent=on&fl=id,domain,score" >> => "response":{"numFound":3,"start":0,"docs":[] >> >> $ curl >> "http://localhost:8282/solr/links/select?defType=dismax&q=yengas&qf=domain^4&pf=domain&ps=0&fl=id,domain,score" >> => "response":{"numFound":0,"start":0,"docs":[] >> >> >> $ curl >> "http://localhost:8282/solr/links/select?defType=dismax&q=yengas.com&pf=domain&ps=0&fl=id,domain,score" >> => "response":{"numFound":3,"start":0,"docs":[] >> >> >> The partial match fails on dismax and normal query. >> >> What could I be missing? >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> Mugoma. >> >> >> >> > >