Question

My database has three columns, which I configured lucene to index. However, I can search by only one of them. Complete description is the following:

I am following these instructions to configure solr to use mysql data:

http://digitalpbk.com/apachesolr/apache-solr-mysql-sample-data-config

I downloaded the jdbc driver, put it in /example/lib, and created a new requestHandler in /example/conf/solrconfig.xml.

My database table items has three columns:

1. id: int, primary, autoincrement key

2. name: varchar(256)

3. description: varchar(511)

So, I create following data-config.xml:

<dataConfig>
    <dataSource type="JdbcDataSource"
                    driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
                    url="jdbc:mysql://SERVER/DATABASE"
                    user="USERNAME" 
                    password="PASSWORD"/>
        <document name="content">
            <entity name="node" query="select id, name, description from items">
                <field column="id"         name="id" />
                <field column="name"       name="name" />
                <field column="description" name="description" />
            </entity>
        </document>
</dataConfig>

Next, I edit schema.xml in /example/solr/conf to let it know about new names:

<field name="id"          type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"> 
<field name="name"        type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"> 
<field name="description" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"> 

I had to uncomment the descriptions of id and name which were present in this file earlier, since they clashed with my descriptions.

Next, I imported the database (around 100K rows) successfully.

At the end of all this, I can successfully search by name, but I am unable to search by description or by id. I do not understand why this should be the case. Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Name field may be the default field name to search. So make sure you are referring the field names in your query.

To search in description field use query: description:queryString
To search in all fields use query: id:queryString OR name:queryString OR description:queryString

For more information please check http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrRelevancyFAQ