Yes, i also realized that stored="false" was the problem..It is also stated clearly in the documentation : "To be used as the basis for a suggestion, the field must be stored."
Thanks for your time, Grigoris 2016-05-06 19:42 GMT+03:00 Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>: > First off, kudos for providing the details, that really helps! > > The root of your problem is that your suggest field has stored="false". > DocumentDictionaryFactory reads through all the > docs in your corpus, extracts the stored data and puts it in the FST. Since > you don't have any stored data your FST is...er...minimal. > > I'd also add > <str name="storeDir">suggester_fuzzy_dir</str> > to the searchComponent. You'll find the FST on disk in that directory > where it > can be read next time Solr starts up. It is also helpful for figuring out > whether there are suggestions to be had. > > And a minor nit, you probably don't want to specify suggest.dictionary > in your query, > that's already specified in your config. > > And it looks like you're alive to the fact that with that setup > capitalization matters > as does the fact that these suggestions be matched from the beginning of > the > field... > > Best, > Erick > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 1:05 AM, Grigoris Iliopoulos > <grigoris....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I want to use the Solr suggester component for city names. I have the > > following settings: > > schema.xml > > > > Field definition > > > > <fieldType class="solr.TextField" name="textSuggest" > positionIncrementGap="100"> > > <analyzer> > > <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> > > <filter class="solr.StandardFilterFactory"/> > > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > > </analyzer> > > </fieldType> > > > > The field i want to apply the suggester on > > > > <field name="city" type="string" indexed="true" stored="false"/> > > > > The copy field > > > > <copyField source="city" dest="citySuggest"/> > > > > The field > > > > <field name="citySuggest" type="textSuggest" stored="false" > indexed="true" /> > > > > solr-config.xml > > > > <requestHandler name="/suggest" class="solr.SearchHandler" > startup="lazy"> > > <lst name="defaults"> > > <str name="suggest">true</str> > > <str name="suggest.count">10</str> > > <str name="suggest.dictionary">mySuggester</str> > > </lst> > > <arr name="components"> > > <str>suggest</str> > > </arr> > > </requestHandler> > > > > > > > > <searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SuggestComponent"> > > <lst name="suggester"> > > <str name="name">mySuggester</str> > > <str name="lookupImpl">FuzzyLookupFactory</str> > > <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str> > > <str name="field">citySuggest</str> > > <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">string</str> > > </lst> > > </searchComponent> > > > > Then i run > > > > > http://localhost:8983/solr/company/suggest?suggest=true&suggest.dictionary=mySuggester&wt=json&suggest.q=Ath&suggest.build=true > > > > to build the suggest component > > > > Finally i run > > > > > http://localhost:8983/solr/company/suggest?suggest=true&suggest.dictionary=mySuggester&wt=json&suggest.q=Ath > > > > but i get an empty result set > > > > > {"responseHeader":{"status":0,"QTime":0},"suggest":{"mySuggester":{"Ath":{"numFound":0,"suggestions":[]}}}} > > > > Are there any obvious mistakes? Any thoughts? >
