I have the same issue. Terms like "R&R" are treated as "R R" thus search api searches and highlights all the letters. It should however treat R&R as one word. Can't figure this out, I tried the \W and disabled certain processors, however I can't get it to work, it keeps searching and highlighting the letter R.
- 🇺🇸United States rishi kulshreshtha
@drunken, when searching for values without the "&" symbol, I'm getting results, but including "&" isn't returning the expected one. I’m wondering if this issue is related to the database component or if it’s actually a problem with the Search API since I’m encountering it while using the Search API with Solr.
- 🇦🇹Austria drunken monkey Vienna, Austria
@rishi kulshreshtha: I think most people want their searches to ignore the
&character, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the default Solr configuration provided by the Solr module → did ignore them. However, the beauty of Solr is that everything is configurable, so you just need to adapt your configuration to have it index&characters exactly the way you want. (Though reading up on Solr configuration takes a while at first, of course. Here (or the version corresponding to your Solr version) is a good place to start, I think, if you are basically familiar with what Solr does.)So, to answer your question: This issue is just about the database backend, but it probably also exists with other backends. It’s not a problem of the Search API framework itself, though, as that makes no assumptions about what constitutes words/tokens.