I have a suggester component with which I am trying to use context filtering. It works fine, if field specified for context filtering is present on all documents of the index but does not work if its a field which is optional.
Following is my component. <searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SuggestComponent"> <lst name="suggester"> <str name="name">insightSuggester</str> <str name="lookupImpl">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.fst.BlendedInfixLookupFactory</str> <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str> <str name="field">concept_name</str> <str name="contextField">is_named_entity</str> <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">text_general</str> <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str> <str name="buildOnOptimize">false</str> <str name="buildOnCommit ">false</str> <str name="highlight">false</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">insightSuggester</str> </lst> <arr name="components"> <str>suggest</str> </arr> </requestHandler> the contextField " is_named_entity" is an optional field which is present on some documents only and not all. Also, it is a boolean type. <field name="is_named_entity" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false" /> following is my query but it returns no suggestions even though it is expected http://localhost:8081/solr/collection_store_606c86431a118f480d2cfc0f/suggest?suggest=true&suggest.q=tor&suggest.cfq=false Any idea why no results are returned by the suggester for this contextField? Thanks Pratik