For this, I ended up just changing it to string and using "abcdefg*" to match. That seems to work so far.
Thanks, Brian Lamb On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Brian Lamb <brian.l...@journalexperts.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running into some confusion with the way edgengram works. I have the > field set up as: > > <fieldType name="edgengram" class="solr.TextField" > positionIncrementGap="1000"> > <analyzer> > <tokenizer class="solr.LowerCaseTokenizerFactory" /> > <filter class="solr.EdgeNGramFilterFactory" minGramSize="1" > maxGramSize="100" side="front" /> > </analyzer> > </fieldType> > > I've also set up my own similarity class that returns 1 as the idf score. > What I've found this does is if I match a string "abcdefg" against a field > containing "abcdefghijklmnop", then the idf will score that as a 7: > > 7.0 = idf(myfield: a=51 ab=23 abc=2 abcd=2 abcde=2 abcdef=2 abcdefg=2) > > I get why that's happening, but is there a way to avoid that? Do I need to > do a new field type to achieve the desired affect? > > Thanks, > > Brian Lamb >
