: > I solve this problem by having metadata stored in my index which tells : > my custom request handler what fields to facet on for each category ... : How do you define this metadata?
this might be a good place to start, note that this message is almost two years old, and predates the opensourcing of Solr ... the "Servlet" refered to in this thread is Solr. http://www.nabble.com/Announcement%3A-Lucene-powering-CNET.com-Product-Category-Listings-p748420.html ...i think i also talked a bit about the metadata documents in my apachecon slides from last yera ... but i don't really remember, and i haven't look at them in a while... http://people.apache.org/~hossman/apachecon2006us/ -Hoss
