Dev Time: Prefix and Suffix Matches in Solr

Dev Time: Prefix and Suffix Matches in Solr

Prefix and Suffix Matches in Solr Search engines are all about looking up strings. The user enters a query term that is then retrieved from the inverted index. Sometimes a user is looking for a value that is only a substring of values in the index and the user might be interested in those matches as well. This is especially important for languages like German that contain compound words like Semmelknödel where Knödel means dumpling and Semmel specializes the kind. Wildcards For demoing the approaches I am using a very simple schema. Documents consist of a text field and an id. The configuration as well as a unit test is also vailable on Github . id "); //]]>