"Doc1 has the pattern "AB%CD%" associated with it (somehow?!)."
You need to clarify what you mean by that.
To be clear, Solr support for wildcards is a superset of the SQL LIKE
operator, and the patterns used in the LIKE operator are NOT stored in the
table data, but used at query time - same with Solr. In SQL you do not
"associate" patterns with table data, but rather you query data using a
pattern.
Step back and describe the problem you are trying to solve rather than
prematurely jumping into a proposed solution.
So, if there is something you already do in SQL and now wish to do it in
Solr, please tell us about it.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Lochschmied, Alexander
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 5:25 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: AW: Indexing wildcard patterns
I thought my question might be confusing...
I know about Solr providing wildcards in queries, but my problem is
different.
I have those patterns associated with my searchable documents before any
actual search is done.
I need Solr to return the document which is associated with matching
patterns. User does not enter the wildcard pattern; wildcard pattern must be
tested by Solr automatically.
So in the example I provided below, a user might enter " ABCDXYZ " and I
need Solr to return Doc1, as Doc1 has the pattern "AB%CD%" associated with
it (somehow?!).
Thanks,
Alexander
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Ahmet Arslan [mailto:iori...@yahoo.com]
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. August 2012 10:34
An: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Indexing wildcard patterns
--- On Fri, 8/10/12, Lochschmied, Alexander
<alexander.lochschm...@vishay.com> wrote:
From: Lochschmied, Alexander <alexander.lochschm...@vishay.com>
Subject: Indexing wildcard patterns
To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org>
Date: Friday, August 10, 2012, 11:07 AM Coming from a SQL database
based search system, we already have a set of defined patterns
associated with our searchable documents.
% matches no or any number of characters _ matches one character
Example:
Doc 1: 'AB%CD', 'AB%CD%'
Doc 2: 'AB_CD'
...
Thus Doc 1 matches
ABXYZCD
ABCD
ABCDXYZ
...
Whereas Doc 2 matches only
ABXCD
ABYCD
ABZCD
...
This can be achieved in SQL WHERE statements using the LIKE operator.
Is there a (similar) way to this in Solr?
Yes, wildcard search in solr
* matches no or any number of characters ? matches one character
http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Wildcard%20Searches
