The right way to search in file data using API?

[jecbm]

I have been trying to find an authoritative post on how to search in content with no luck.

I need to find all nodes that contain a certain term in the content data and only in the content data.

I need to use wildcards as the term occurs inside an XML string.

I have attempted various queries based on the posts I have found, but I fail to find anything at all whenever I try to query inside the content.

TYPE:"cm:content" will provide a superset of the nodes that I'm interested in,. but if I attempt TYPE:"cm:content" and content:*myTerm* I find nothing. The myTerm value is copied directly from the XML data stored in a node, so it's not an issue of wrong case or misspelling.

Additionally, how do I restrict this search to SOLR?

[angelborroy]

Alfresco SOLR is indexing the content of the documents transforming the original format (XML in your case) to text. Since there is no transformation out-of-the-box to transform XML into text, you are getting no results.

You may try adding or developing a new transformer, after that your query would work.

Full text search reference is available in https://docs.alfresco.com/search-services/latest/using/