On Dec 29, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Joe Calderon wrote:
> hello *, i want to boost documents that match the query better,
> currently i also index my field as a string an boost if i match the
> string field
>
> but im wondering if its possible to boost with bf parameter with a
> formula using the function strdist(), i know one of the columns would
> be the field name, but how do i specify the use query as the other
> parameter?
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery#strdist
You can just quote the Query, as in strdist("user query", field)
I guess it is a bit more complicated if you have operators in there, so you
probably need to do some processing on the client side.
Is that what you are after?
You could also use the fuzzy query and forego a function query altogether,
although that only allows for edit distance. Or, if you are simply indexing
the field as a string, just do a regular term query match against it with your
whole query as a single field and then boost that clause in the query.
-Grant
