Not finding any matches... am I being stupid?

[fatpeter55]

I'm trying to work out where I'm going wrong. I have:

http://solr.site.com/solr/graphics/select/?q=title:royalty+free&debugQuery=on&qf=text&defType=synonym_edismax&synonyms=true

...and in my synonyms.txt file I have:

cartoon, comic, cartoons, funny, drawing, sketch, draw, drawings, draw
clipart,image,art,graphics,clip,images,picture,pictures,multimedia,royalty free,royalty+free,cartoon

solrconfig.xml I have:

 <queryParser name="synonym_edismax" class="solr.SynonymExpandingExtendedDismaxQParserPlugin">
    <!-- You can define more than one synonym analyzer in the following list.
         For example, you might have one set of synonyms for English, one for French,
         one for Spanish, etc.
      -->
    <lst name="synonymAnalyzers">
      <!-- Name your analyzer something useful, e.g. "analyzer_en", "analyzer_fr", "analyzer_es", etc.
           If you only have one, the name doesn't matter (hence "myCoolAnalyzer").
        -->
      <lst name="myCoolAnalyzer">
        <!-- We recommend a PatternTokenizerFactory that tokenizes based on whitespace and quotes.
             This seems to work best with most people's synonym files.
             For details, read the discussion here: http://github.com/healthonnet/hon-lucene-synonyms/issues/26
          -->
        <lst name="tokenizer">
          <str name="class">solr.PatternTokenizerFactory</str>
          <str name="pattern"><![CDATA[(?:\s|\")+]]></str>
        </lst>
        <!-- The ShingleFilterFactory outputs synonyms of multiple token lengths (e.g. unigrams, bigrams, trigrams, etc.).
             The default here is to assume you don't have any synonyms longer than 4 tokens.
             You can tweak this depending on what your synonyms look like. E.g. if you only have unigrams, you can remove
             it entirely, and if your synonyms are up to 7 tokens in length, you should set the maxShingleSize to 7.
          -->
        <lst name="filter">
          <str name="class">solr.ShingleFilterFactory</str>
          <str name="outputUnigramsIfNoShingles">true</str>
          <str name="outputUnigrams">true</str>
          <str name="minShingleSize">2</str>
          <str name="maxShingleSize">4</str>
        </lst>
        <!-- This is where you set your synonym file.  For the unit tests and "Getting Started" examples, we use example_synonym_file.txt.
             This plugin will work best if you keep expand set to true and have all your synonyms comma-separated (rather than =>-separated).
          -->
        <lst name="filter">
          <str name="class">solr.SynonymFilterFactory</str>
          <str name="tokenizerFactory">solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory</str>
          <str name="synonyms">synonyms.txt</str>
          <str name="expand">true</str>
          <str name="ignoreCase">true</str>
        </lst>
      </lst>
    </lst>
  </queryParser>

I've restarted Solr, but I still get this error:

<lst name="reasonForNotExpandingSynonyms">
  <str name="name">DidntFindAnySynonyms</str>
   <str name="explanation">No synonyms found for this query.  Check your synonyms file.</str>
 </lst>

I don't get it - what am I doing wrong?

[youradds]

OK, well I found the problem - I need to do:

http://solr.site.com/solr/graphics/select/?q=royalty+free&qf=title&debugQuery=on&defType=synonym_edismax&synonyms=true

i.e pass in just the query (not field), as well as qf=title . However, this means I can't search on any other columns. Is there any way to do this? For example, we have a column called has_gif - I want to also narrow down the results further by only matching those.

Thanks

Andy

[clipartinc]

you sure the royalty+free is not causing the issue? Those special characters can cause issues in the synonym.txt file.