Hello,
There are quite a few links that detail the difference between StrField and
TextField. Also links that explain that, even though the field is indexed, it
is not tokenized and stored as a single keyword, as can be verified by the
debug analysis on Solr admin and CURL debugQuery options.
What I am unable to understand is how a wildcard works on StrFields? For
example, if the name is "John Doe" and I search for "John*", I get that match.
Which means, that somewhere deep within, maybe a Trie or Dictionary
representation exists that allows this search with a partial string.
I would have assumed that wildcard would match on TextFields which allow
(Edge)NGramFilters, etc. -- SRK
