Solr Cookbook - Third Edition

Using simple nested queries

Imagine a situation where you need a query nested inside another query. For example, you want to run a query using the standard request handler, but you need to embed a query that is parsed by the dismax query parser inside it. For example, we will like to find all the books having a certain phrase in their title, and boost the ones that have a part of the phrase present. This recipe will show you how to do this.

How to do it...

Let's start with a simple index that has the following structure:

1. You need to put the following section to the schema.xml file:

   <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" />
   <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" />

2. The next step is data ...