: But still i cant stop thinking about this. : i deleted my entire index and now i have 0 documents. : : Now if i make a query with accrd i still get a suggestion of accord even : though there are no document returned since i deleted my entire index. i : hope it also clear the spell check index field.
there are two Lucene indexes when you use spell checking. there is the "main" index which is goverend by your schema.xml and is what you add your own documents to, and what searches are run agains for the result section of solr responses. There is also the "spell" index which has only two fields and in which each "document" corrisponds to a "word" that might be returend as a spelling suggestion, and the other fields contain various start/end/middle ngrams that represent possible misspellings. When you use the spellchecker component it builds the "spell" index makinga document out of every word it finds in whatever field name you configure it to use. deleting your entire "main" index won't automaticly delete the "spell" index (allthough you should be able rebuild the "spell" index using the *empty* "main" index, that should work). : i am copying both fields to a field called : <copyField source="make" dest="mySpellText"/> : <copyField source="model" dest="mySpellText"/> ..at this point your "main" index has a field named mySpellText, and for ever document it contains a copy of make and model. : <lst name="spellchecker"> : <str name="name">default</str> : <str name="field">mySpellText</str> : <str name="buildOnOptimize">true</str> : <str name="buildOnCommit">true</str> ...so whenever you commit or optimize your "main" index it will take every word from the mySpellText and use them all as individual documents in the "spell" index. In your previous email you said you changed hte copyField declaration, and then triggered a commit -- that rebuilt your "spell" index, but the data was still all there in the mySpellText field of the "main" index, so the rebuilt "spell" index was exactly the same. : i have buildOnOPtmize and buildOnCommit as true so when i index new document : i want my dictionary to be created but how can i make sure i remove the : preivious indexed terms. everytime the spellchecker component "builds" it will create a completley new "spell" index .. but if the old data is still in the "main" index then it will also be in the "spell" index. The only reason i can think of why you'd be seeing words in your "spell" index after deleting documents from your "main" index is that even if you delete documents, the Terms are still there in the underlying index untill the segments are merged ... so if you do an optimize that will force them to be expunged --- but i honestly have no idea if that is what's causing your problem, because quite frankly i really don't understand what your problem is ... you have to provide specifics: reproducible steps anyone can take using a clean install of solr to see the the behavior you are seeing that seems incorrect. (ie: modifications to the example schema, and commands to execute against hte demo port to see the bug) if you can provide details like that then it's possible to understand what is going wrong for you -- which is a prereq to providing useful help. -Hoss
