FileDictionaryFactory along with FuzzyLookupFactory not sending any suggestions

[diwakar bhardwaj]

Hi,

I've already asked the question here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40771451/couldnt-get-data-in-suggester-even-when-storedir-getting-created-by-filediction

so,

 I have a list of cities onto which I want to implement spell-checker. I
have the priorities/weights of these cities with me. I tried implementing a
solrsuggester with a FileDictionaryFactory as a base with the following
format:

<city-name>  <TAB>  <weight>  <TAB>  <other parameters like citycode,country>

I am passing other attributes like citycode, country etc as pipe separated
payload string.

Here's my solrconfig

<searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SuggestComponent">
    <lst name="suggester">
      <str name="name">mySuggester</str>
      <str name="lookupImpl">FuzzyLookupFactory</str>
      <str name="dictionaryImpl">FileDictionaryFactory</str>
      <str name="field">name</str>
      <str name="weightField">searchscore</str>
      <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">string</str>
      <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str>
      <str name="sourceLocation">spellings.txt</str>
      <str name="storeDir">autosuggest_dict</str>
    </lst>
  </searchComponent>

  <requestHandler name="/suggest" class="solr.SearchHandler" startup="lazy">
    <lst name="defaults">
      <str name="suggest">true</str>
      <str name="suggest.count">10</str>
      <str name="suggest.dictionary">mySuggester</str>
    </lst>
    <arr name="components">
      <str>suggest</str>
    </arr>
  </requestHandler>

and my schema

<field name="name" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"
multiValued="false" />
<field name="countrycode" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"
multiValued="false" />
<field name="latlng" type="location" indexed="true" stored="true"
multiValued="false" />
<field name="searchfield" type="text_ngram" indexed="true"
stored="false" multiValued="true" omitNorms="true"
omitTermFreqAndPositions="true" />

<uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey>
<defaultSearchField>searchfield</defaultSearchField>
<solrQueryParser defaultOperator="OR"/>
<copyField source="name" dest="searchfield"/>

Now the problem I am facing is I am getting 0 results for each and every
search query. Even though I can see the storeDir getting created and it has
a bin file with data looks like my payload data.

This is the url format I am using

/suggest?suggest=true&suggest.dictionary=mySuggester&wt=json&suggest.q=cologne

So, I have the following questions:

   1. What does the creation of storeDir signify ? Is it indexed
   successfully
   2. If yes, then what's wrong with my query ? If no, Am I missing
   something here(indexPath ???).
   3. Is it the right way to supply search parameters on payload field ? If
   no, is there any other way ?

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Thanks,
bhardwajdb