Following Solr documentations (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Function+Queries and others) I should just put idf(fieldname, 'term') as I do with termfreq(fieldname, 'term') in the field list. However, whenever I try this I get an exception as:
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException: No live SolrServers available to handle this request
By looking at the logs I could find:
null:java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: requires a TFIDFSimilarity (such as ClassicSimilarity)
And I have no idea what those are. Also when I use debugQuery=on it shows me, along with a lot of other things, the idf value for the document as:
4.406719 = idf, computed as log(1 + (docCount - docFreq + 0.5) / (docFreq + 0.5))
What should I do to fix these errors or to get desired tf and idf value for a term?
You need to add following line in your "managed-schema" where similarity tag is commented at the end of the schema
<similarity class="solr.ClassicSimilarityFactory"/>
I had run into the same issue and found this chrome extension -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/solr-query-debugger/gmpkeiamnmccifccnbfljffkcnacmmdl?hl=en
It is really helpful in breaking down "explain" and will display the value of idf for you.