I want to implement a Solr Suggester (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Suggester) that ranks suggestions by document boost factor.
As I understand the documentation, the following config should work: Solrconfig.xml: ... <requestHandler name="/suggest" class="solr.SearchHandler"> <lst name="defaults"> <str name="spellcheck">true</str> <str name="spellcheck.count">7</str> <str name="spellcheck.onlyMorePopular">true</str> </lst> <arr name="last-components"> <str>suggest</str> </arr> </requestHandler> <searchComponent class="solr.SpellCheckComponent" name="suggest"> <lst name="spellchecker"> <str name="name">default</str> <str name="field">suggesttext</str> <str name="classname">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.Suggester</str> <str name="lookupImpl">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.fst.WFSTLookupFactory</str> <str name="buildOnCommit">true</str> </lst> </searchComponent> ... Schema.xml: ... <field name="suggesttext" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="true"/> ... <fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" omitNorms="false"/> ... I added three documents with a document boost: { "add": { "commitWithin": 5000, "overwrite": true, "boost": 3.0, "doc": { "id": "1", "suggesttext": "text bb" } }, "add": { "commitWithin": 5000, "overwrite": true, "boost": 2.0, "doc": { "id": "2", "suggesttext": "text cc" } }, "add": { "commitWithin": 5000, "overwrite": true, "boost": 1.0, "doc": { "id": "3", "suggesttext": "text aa" } } } A query the suggest handler (with spellcheck.q=te) gives the following response: { "responseHeader":{ "status":0, "QTime":6}, "command":"build", "response":{"numFound":3,"start":0,"docs":[ { "id":"1", "suggesttext":["text bb"]}, { "id":"2", "suggesttext":["text cc"]}, { "id":"3", "suggesttext":["text aa"]}] }, "spellcheck":{ "suggestions":[ "te",{ "numFound":3, "startOffset":0, "endOffset":2, "suggestion":["text aa", "text bb", "text cc"]}]}} The search results are ranked by boost as expected. However, the suggestions are not ranked by boost (but alphabetically instead). I also tried the TSTLookup and FSTLookup lookup implementations with the same result. Any ideas what I'm missing? Thanks, Mirko