Boost a single field

Is it possible to boost a field in the search (v2)?

Example: On the demo page, https://olivernn.github.io/moonwalkers/ , if I search two fields like this: name:pete^10 body:pete, I expect the result which has a match on the name field to come first. However, the result with the match in the body comes first.

[olivernn]

@Andargor this part of the interface has changed since 2.0.0, this is covered in the upgrading guide.

That said, with the changes discussed earlier in this thread, it should be possible to bring back this feature, allowing build time boosts for certain fields again.

[olivernn]

I’ve got a good idea whats going wrong here and I think I’ve got a solution. Specifically it is to do with how lunr is treating documents, currently there is just a single vector space model for the entire document. With field search it really needs to have a vector space of each individual field. I have a rough implementation of this locally and it performs much better with field based searches.

I’m just trying to figure out a way of testing the relevancy of search results in an automated, repeatable manner. This is tricky to get right. I’ve found some resources from a now defunct apache project that might be useful in assessing how good the relevancy of lunr is before and after this change. Basically, I want to be able to see the impact on changing the scoring algorithms within lunr.

Anyway, long story short, I think I’ve got a good solution to this issue, I just need to make sure it doesn’t negatively impact any other kind of searches.