Configuring the Solr spellchecker
If you are used to the way the spellchecker worked in the previous Solr versions, then you might remember that it required its own index to give you spelling corrections. This approach had some disadvantages, such as the need to rebuild the index on each Solr node or replicate the spellchecker index between the nodes. With Solr 4.0, a new spellchecker implementation was introduced, solr.DirectSolrSpellchecker. It allows you to use your main index to provide spelling suggestions and doesn't need to be rebuilt after every commit. Now, let's see how to use this new spellchecker implementation in Solr.
How to do it...
First, let's assume we have a field in the index called title in which we hold the titles of our documents. ...
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