I'm about to implement an autocomplete mechanism for my search box. I've read about some of the common approaches, but I have a question about wildcard query vs facet.prefix.
Say I want autocomplete for a title: 'Shadows of the Damned'. I want this to appear as a suggestion if I type 'sha' or 'dam' or 'the'. I don't care that it won't appear if I type 'hadows'. While indexing, I'd use a whitespace tokenizer and a lowercase filter to store that title in the index. Now I'm thinking two approaches for 'dam' typed in the search box: 1) q=title:dam* 2) q=*:*&facet=on&facet.field=title&facet.prefix=dam So any reason that I should favour one over the other? Speed a factor? The index has around 200,000 items. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Wildcard-query-vs-facet-prefix-for-autocomplete-tp3995199.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
