I saw Yonik mentioned faceted browsing as something coming in the
future of Solr, but I had thought it was one of the initial features
from seeing this announcement ages ago:
<http://www.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Lucene-powering-CNET.com-
Product-Category-Listings-t266441.html#a748420>
If facets are part of the current Solr codebase, how are they
configured and returned in the response?
If they aren't currently possible with Solr, what would it take to
implement it?
I'm still, obviously, just scratching the surface of Solr as I
evaluate it for replacing my custom XML-RPC based search server which
does rudimentary facets using Filters and BitSet operations.
By faceted browsing, a Query is used to search, Hits are returned,
but also based on a subset of the fields (indexed, untokenized
fields) the number of documents in each of these "facet" fields is
returned as well to show counts by each facet.
Thanks,
Erik
