Upgrading from Solr 3.5 to 4.8 for a client and mucking around in solrconfig.xml. I thought Hey, let's uncomment the suggester just for yucks so they can try it out".
Fine so far, but then I looked to try to figure out what part of their schema to use for the entry in the suggest component: <str name="weightField">price</str> and.... there isn't anything in any documentation that I can find. If I take it out I get an error at startup since it's a required field. For instance, it's not in the ref guide. Google doesn't help. Looking at the code also doesn't explain much, and isn't very friendly anyway. I _suspect_ that it's ok to have a bogus entry here since the code seems to return 0 if there's no field (on a very quick glance) in which case it seems like it's _not_ really required. So.. what happens if the field is absent? What kinds of values _should_ be in it? What do they do? and all that rot.... If we're going to require it, we should provide some guidance somewhere. Worth a JIRA? Erick
