On 1/11/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Writing a more generic "Stats" request handler that does what you're describing certianly seems like a good idea.
Hmmm, I hadn't thought of it as a separate handler, but as long as these types of requests aren't related to a base query, and not needed along with every query, I guess that could make sense.
Attempting to enumerating all of the values for a field could be dangerous
We do it for faceting :-) But we don't drag it all into memory at once...
but an API where the clienc specifies a starting term and a number of terms and we use the TermEnum.seek() would be fairly straight forward.
Adding a start and end (like a range query) is a great idea! Additionally, I think adding support to incrementally write all the terms to the response might be important... loading them all into memory doesn't seem like a great idea. Perhaps adding Iterator or Iterable to the list of supported types in TextWriter would be a nice general way to go. -Yonik
