Hi everybody,
Recently I implemented an autocomplete mechanism for my website using a custom TermsComponent. I was quite happy with that because it also enables me to do a Google-like feature where complete sentences where suggested to the user when he typed in the search field. I used Shingles to search against pieces of sentences. (I have resources for French people if somebody asks) Then came solr 3.1 and its new suggest component. I have looked at the documentation but it's still unclear how it works exactly. So please let me ask some questions : - Is there performance improvements over TermsComponent ? - Is it able to autosuggest sentences and not only words ? If yes, how ? Should I keep my shingles ? - What is this "threshold" value that I see ? Is it a mandatory field to complete ? I want to have suggestion no matter what the frequency is in the document ! Thank you all, if I succeed to do that I will try to provide a tutorial to do what with Jquery UI autocomplete + Suggest component if anyone's interested. Best regards. Victor
