: So there is no generally accepted preferred way to do auto-suggest? there are many generally accepted and preferred ways to do auto-suggest -- it all comes down to specifics goals and needs.
for example: using the TermsComponent is really simple to setup if you want your suggestions to come from a single field of your index and be in a simple ordering -- but if you want the suggested terms to be limited based on other criteria, or if you want to influence hte ordering, by other things you need to use a complicated solution (like Facets). For people with really tricky requirements (like ordering the results by a custome rule) it can even make sense to setup a special core where each document corrisponds to a "term" to suggest, with a text field containing ngrams, and other fields containing numeric values that you use in boost functions. there are lots of options -- all of them equally accepted -- prefrence is based on needs. -Hoss
