No, that’s not mandatory. That is just an example of how a request handler could spell that out, but those parameters can be (and often are, depending on the nature of the application) specified per request.
Erik > On Jan 7, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Vishal Swaroop <vishal....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am exploring faceting in SOLR in collection1 example Faceting fields are > defined in solrconfig.xml under browse request handler which is used in > in-built "VelocityResponseWriter" > <requestHandler name="/browse" class="solr.SearchHandler"> > ... > <str name="facet">on</str> > <str name="facet.field">cat</str> > </requestHandler> > > I think it is not at all mandatory to define facet fields in > solrconfig.xml, right ? > Instead we can directly use facet in query URLs... e.g. > http:// > <server>:8081/solr/mytestcollection/select?q=*:*&rows=0&facet=true&facet.field=item_id&facet.field=item_type&wt=json&indent=true > > Regards