Cool! suggestion: you might want to replace
externalVal.toLowerCase().split(" ");
with
externalVal.toLowerCase().split("\\s+");
also I bet folks might have different ideas about what to do with
hyphens, so maybe:
externalVal.toLowerCase().split("[-\\s]+");
In fact why not make it a configurable parameter? Or - even better -
use some other existing token analysis chain? I'm not sure how to fit
that into Solr's architecture: can you analyze a field value and still
access the unanalyzed text?
-Mike
