On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:20 AM, bbarani <bbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We are trying to implement auto suggest feature in our application. > > I would like to know the difference between terms vs spell check component. > > Both the handlers seems to display almost the same output, can anyone let > me > know the difference and also I would like to know when to go for spell > check > and when to go for terms component. > > SpellCheckComponent is designed to operate on whole words and not partial words so I don't know how well it will work for auto-suggest, if at all.
As far as differences between SpellCheckComponent and Terms Component is concerned, TermsComponent is a straight prefix match whereas SCC takes edit distance into account. Also, SCC can deal with phrases composed of multiple words and also gives back a collated suggestion. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
