Would facet.prefix work for you? -Yonik
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Marian Steinbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I just startet evaluating Solr a few days ago and I'm quite happy with > the way it works. The test project I am using on is a product search > for a wine shop with 2500 articles and about 20 fields, with faceted > search. > > Now I'd like to know what would be the best way to implement a search > term autocompletion in the way of Google Suggest > (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en). > > Most autocomplete implementations aim to display search result entries > during input. What Suggest does, and what I'd like to accomplish, is > an automatic suggestion of relevant index terms. This would help users > to prevent spelling problems, which are a huge issue in the domain of > wine, where almost every other term is french. > > Szenario: > > 1) The user types "sa" into a query input field. > 2) The system searches for the 10 most frequent index terms starting > with "sa" and displays the result in a menu. > 3) The user adds a 3rd character => input is now "sau" > 4) The system searches for the 10 most frequent index terms starting > with "sa" and displays the result in a menu. > 5) The user clicks on "sauvignon" in the menu and the term in the > input field is completed to "sauvignon". > > So, what I need technically is the (web service) query that delivers > all index terms (for specific index fields) starting with a certain > prefix. The result should be ordered by frequency and limited to a > certain amount of entries. > > Is this functionality already available in the Solr core? > > It seems as if "Schema Browser" functionality of the luke webapp (part > of the nightly build) does something similar, but I can't find out how > to limit the term lists to match the requirements above. > > I have to mention that I'm not an experienced Java developer. :) > > Thanks for your help! > > Marian >
