I'm extremely time constrained at the moment, but I'll reply
briefly. Solr provides the ground work for making faceted features
possible, but out of the box it does not provide it without coding a
custom request handler and knowing a little about Lucene and Solr's
APIs. As you've seen, bits and pieces have been posted to the list.
My project is open-source at the "patacriticism" project at
SourceForge, under the "nines" folder in Subversion. Feel free to
have a peek there, but its certainly going to change dramatically
soon to take better advantage of Solr's caching infrastructure - so
take it as a (bad) example for now.
Erik
On Jun 23, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Vish D. wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to figure out how I can have some type of faceted browsing
working. I am also in need of a way to get a list of unique field
values
within a query's results set (for filtering, etc...). When I say
trying, I
mean having it up and running without much coding, b/c of time
reasons. I
would most definitely be involved in some customizing just because
of the
nature of the data I am working with. I have searched through the
mailing
list and seen some posts mentioning BitSets DocSets, etc.., but
wasn't clear
on if those are already built into the solr's nightly builds (I
don't see
any documentation either on the wiki, or online). Can some please
steer me
towards the right direction to have the above up in the short time?
Thanks a lot!
Vish
