SOLR Spellcheck not returning results - solr

Question

I'm having an annoying issue with the spellcheck component of solr 6.5.0. If I run a query through the spellcheck request handler, /spell, the query works as expected and I get suggested spelling for the incorrect words.
{
"responseHeader":{
"status":0,
"QTime":42},
"response":{"numFound":0,"start":0,"docs":[]
},
"spellcheck":{
"suggestions":{
"injary":{
"numFound":3,
"startOffset":0,
"endOffset":6,
"origFreq":0,
"suggestion":[{
"word":"injury",
"freq":121},
{
"word":"inward",
"freq":3},
{
"word":"injure",
"freq":1}]}},
"correctlySpelled":false,
"collations":{
"collation":{
"collationQuery":"injury",
"hits":121,
"misspellingsAndCorrections":[
"injary","injury"]},
"collation":{
"collationQuery":"inward",
"hits":3,
"misspellingsAndCorrections":[
"injary","inward"]},
"collation":{
"collationQuery":"injure",
"hits":1,
"misspellingsAndCorrections":[
"injary","injure"]}}}}
But if I run a query through the standard request handler, /select, I get no suggestions.
{
"responseHeader":{
"status":0,
"QTime":0,
"params":{
"q":"injary",
"indent":"on",
"spellcheck":"on",
"wt":"json",
"_":"1492780436450"}},
"response":{"numFound":0,"start":0,"docs":[]
}}
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I modified the solrconfig.xml to bring the two request handlers into line as follows, the rest is default:
<lst name="spellchecker">
<str name="name">default</str>
<str name="field">content</str>
<str name="classname">solr.DirectSolrSpellChecker</str>
<str name="distanceMeasure">internal</str>
<float name="accuracy">0.5</float>
<int name="maxEdits">2</int>
<int name="minPrefix">1</int>
<int name="maxInspections">5</int>
<int name="minQueryLength">4</int>
<float name="maxQueryFrequency">0.01</float>
<float name="thresholdTokenFrequency">.0001</float>
</lst>
<requestHandler name="/spell" class="solr.SearchHandler" startup="lazy">
<lst name="defaults">
<!-- Solr will use suggestions from both the 'default' spellchecker
and from the 'wordbreak' spellchecker and combine them.
collations (re-written queries) can include a combination of
corrections from both spellcheckers -->
<str name="spellcheck.dictionary">default</str>
<str name="spellcheck">on</str>
<str name="spellcheck.extendedResults">true</str>
<str name="spellcheck.count">10</str>
<str name="spellcheck.alternativeTermCount">5</str>
<str name="spellcheck.maxResultsForSuggest">5</str>
<str name="spellcheck.collate">true</str>
<str name="spellcheck.collateExtendedResults">true</str>
<str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">10</str>
<str name="spellcheck.maxCollations">5</str>
<str name="wt">json</str>
</lst>
<arr name="last-components">
<str>spellcheck</str>
</arr>
</requestHandler>
<requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler">
<!-- default values for query parameters can be specified, these
will be overridden by parameters in the request
-->
<lst name="defaults">
<str name="echoParams">explicit</str>
<int name="rows">10</int>
<str name="df">_text_</str>
<str name="wt">json</str>
<!-- spell check component configuration -->
<str name="spellcheck">true</str>
<str name="spellcheck.count">5</str>
<str name="spellcheck.collate">true</str>
<str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">5</str>
</lst>
<arr name="last-components">
<str>spellcheck</str>
</arr>
</requestHandler>

Answer 1

It appears the issue was related to my managed-schema file.
I am parsing XML files and solr automatically adds the fields of the XML files to the managed-schema file as type strings. When I changed my dictionary field to type text_general it starting working as expected.
I hostly can't see how this worked but I made no other changes. I deleted my core and started from scratch to make sure I wasn't mistaken but it worked.