according to hte echParams output, you aren't specifying a "q" param.
You seem to be trying to specify your query input using the "q.alt" param
-- but the q.alt param doesn't use the edismax parser specified by the
defType param -- q.alt is a feature *of* the edismax parser that is used
to completley override all of the options used to configure edismax when
there is no "q" param, and it (by default) uses the defualt solr parser.
(the intended usecase is along the lines of "if the user doesn't specify a
query string, default to a search for all the books for sale via
'q.alt=inStock:true'")
stop configuring a q.alt that matches you authors name, and instead
specify a default "q" param (or enture your client always sends a "q"
param) and see if that solves things for you.
: Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:55:24 -0700 (MST)
: From: Paden <rumsey...@gmail.com>
: Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
: To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
: Subject: Solr edismax always using the default fields?
:
: Hello,
:
: I'm trying to tune a search handler to get the results that I want. In the
: solrconfig.xml I specify several different query fields for the edismax
: query parser but it always seems to use the default fields instead.
:
: For example and clarification, when I remove Author from the "df" list of
: fields the search results do not come up with the author I was looking for.
: But when I add Author back in as a "df" it returns 19/20 of his documents as
: the top search results. I guess I'm really confused because when you specify
: the query fields solr shouldn't use those default fields. I guess it's not a
: real super problem because I can define all the fields I need as defaults.
: I'm just trying to figure out where I'm going wrong here. Is there a reason
: that this would happen? I have the search handler xml below
:
: <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
:
: <lst name="defaults">
: <str name="echoParams">all</str>
: <str name="defType">edismax</str>
: <str name="df">Author</str> <------ADDING THIS GIVES DESIRED RESULT,
: REMOVING BAD--
: <str name="df">text</str> -----RESULT. NOTHING ELSE CHANGES
: <str name="qf">text^0.5 Title^1.2 Author^2.0</str>
: <str name="rows">20</str>
: <str name="q.alt">*some author name*</str>
: </lst>
:
: </requestHandler>
:
: And here is the echoed params of the search
:
: "responseHeader": {
: "status": 0,
: "QTime": 48,
: "params": {
: "lowercaseOperators": "true",
: "df": [
: "Author",
: "text"
: ],
: "echoParams": "all",
: "indent": "true",
: "qf": "text^0.5 Title^1.2 Author^2.0",
: "_": "1436291181730",
: "q.alt": "*some author name*",
: "stopwords": "true",
: "wt": "json",
: "defType": "edismax",
: "rows": "20"
: }
:
:
:
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:
-Hoss
http://www.lucidworks.com/
