Hello,
Is there any recommended way to achieve auto-suggestion in textboxes using
Solr?
I'm new to Solr, but right now I have achieved this functionality by using
an example I found online, doing this:
I added a copy field, which is of the following type:
<fieldType name="text_ngram" class="solr.TextField"
positionIncrementGap="100">
<analyzer type="index">
<tokenizer class="solr.NGramTokenizerFactory" minGramSize="2"
maxGramSize="10"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
<analyzer type="query">
<tokenizer class="solr.EdgeNGramTokenizerFactory" minGramSize="2"
maxGramSize="10"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
</fieldType>
In the search box, after each character is typed, the above field is
queried, and the results are shown in a drop-down list.
However, this is performing quite slow. I'm not sure if that has to do
with the front-end code, or because I'm not using the recommended approach
in terms of how I'm using Solr. Is there any other recommended way to use
Solr to achieve this functionality?
Thanks
