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Apache Solr 4 Cookbook

By : Rafał Kuć
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Apache Solr 4 Cookbook

By: Rafał Kuć

Overview of this book

<p>Apache Solr is a blazing fast, scalable, open source Enterprise search server built upon Apache Lucene. Solr is wildly popular because it supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, and relevancy tuning, amongst other numerous features.<br /><br />"Apache Solr 4 Cookbook" will show you how to get the most out of your search engine. Full of practical recipes and examples, this book will show you how to set up Apache Solr, tune and benchmark performance as well as index and analyze your data to provide better, more precise, and useful search data.<br /><br />"Apache Solr 4 Cookbook" will make your search better, more accurate and faster with practical recipes on essential topics such as SolrCloud, querying data, search faceting, text and data analysis, and cache configuration.<br /><br />With numerous practical chapters centered on important Solr techniques and methods, Apache Solr 4 Cookbook is an essential resource for developers who wish to take their knowledge and skills further. Thoroughly updated and improved, this Cookbook also covers the changes in Apache Solr 4 including the awesome capabilities of SolrCloud.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Solr 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Checking the user's spelling mistakes


Most modern search sites have some kind of user spelling mistakes correction mechanism. Some of those sites have a sophisticated mechanism, while others just have a basic one. But actually that doesn't matter. If all search engines have it then there is a high probability that your client or boss will want one too. Is there a way to integrate such a functionality into Solr? Yes there is, and this recipe will show you how to do it.

Getting ready

In this recipe we'll learn how to use the Solr spellchecker component. The detailed information about setting up the spellchecker component can be found in the Configuring spellchecker to not use its own index recipe in Chapter 1, Apache Solr Configuration.

How to do it...

  1. Let's begin with the index structure (just add this to your schema.xml file, to the field section):

    <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />
    <field name="name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true...