Solr wildcard issue with '-' character - solr

Question

i am using solr and tokenizing a field as follows:
<field name="Title" type="text_general" multiValued="false" indexed="true" stored="true">
<analyzer>
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
</analyzer>
</field>
i append * at each search field to get the matching result:
Title:app*
for example app* will give me app,application and similar result
But if i search for the term with '-' in it the query fails to return anything.
For example:
Title:child-play*
Does not return any result
but Title:child-play does !!
Can anyone point me what might be the issue.
after debug i got this :
for Title:child-play
"debug":{
"rawquerystring":"Title:child-play",
"querystring":"Title::child-play",
"parsedquery":"Title::child Title::play",
"parsedquery_toString":"Title::child Title::play",
for Title:child-play*
"debug":{
"rawquerystring":"CompanyName:child-play*",
"querystring":"CompanyName:child-play*",
"parsedquery":"CompanyName:child-play*",
"parsedquery_toString":"CompanyName:child-play*",

Answer 1

I recommend you to use WordDelimiterFilterFactory
Just change type of field to "custom type", in my case it's 'text_general"
<field name="Title" type="text_general"/>
Then you need to create a new type
For example, my settings. You can customise it how you want.
<fieldType name="text_general" class="solr.TextField" omitNorms="false" positionIncrementGap="100" multiValued="true">
<analyzer type="index">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" words="stopwords.txt" ignoreCase="true"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" types="wdfftypes.txt" generateNumberParts="0" stemEnglishPossessive="0" splitOnCaseChange="1" preserveOriginal="1" catenateAll="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" generateWordParts="1" splitOnNumerics="1"/>
</analyzer>
<analyzer type="query">
<tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" words="stopwords.txt" ignoreCase="true"/>
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
<filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory" types="wdfftypes.txt" generateNumberParts="1" stemEnglishPossessive="0" splitOnCaseChange="1" preserveOriginal="1" catenateAll="1" catenateWords="1" catenateNumbers="1" generateWordParts="1" splitOnNumerics="1"/>
</analyzer>
</fieldType>
Look at my screenshot.
Please read more information here
https://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters
Arguments:
generateWordParts: (integer, default 1) If non-zero, splits words at delimiters.
For example:"CamelCase", "hot-spot" -> "Camel", "Case", "hot", "spot"
generateNumberParts: (integer, default 1) If non-zero, splits numeric strings at delimiters:"1947-32" ->"1947", "32"
splitOnCaseChange: (integer, default 1) If 0, words are not split on camel-case changes:"BugBlaster-XL" -> "BugBlaster", "XL". Example 1 below illustrates the default (non-zero) splitting behavior.
splitOnNumerics: (integer, default 1) If 0, don't split words on transitions from alpha to numeric:"FemBot3000" -> "Fem", "Bot3000"
catenateWords: (integer, default 0) If non-zero, maximal runs of word parts will be joined: "hot-spot-sensor's" -> "hotspotsensor"
catenateNumbers: (integer, default 0) If non-zero, maximal runs of number parts will be joined: 1947-32" -> "194732"
catenateAll: (0/1, default 0) If non-zero, runs of word and number parts will be joined: "Zap-Master-9000" -> "ZapMaster9000"
preserveOriginal: (integer, default 0) If non-zero, the original token is
preserved: "Zap-Master-9000" -> "Zap-Master-9000", "Zap", "Master", "9000"
protected: (optional) The pathname of a file that contains a list of protected words that should be passed through without splitting.
stemEnglishPossessive: (integer, default 1) If 1, strips the possessive "'s" from each subword.