Sounds like: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Collapse+and+Expand+Results http://heliosearch.org/the-collapsingqparserplugin-solrs-new-high-performance-field-collapsing-postfilter/
The main issue is your multi-field criteria. So you may need to extend/overwrite the comparison method. Plus you'd need to keep the counts. Which you should know since you are doing the filtering. Is this the right direction for what you need? Regards, Alex. ---- Sign up for my Solr resources newsletter at http://www.solr-start.com/ On 13 January 2015 at 16:29, tedsolr <tsm...@sciquest.com> wrote: > I have a complicated problem to solve, and I don't know enough about > lucene/solr to phrase the question properly. This is kind of a shot in the > dark. My requirement is to return search results always in completely > "collapsed" form, rolling up duplicates with a count. Duplicates are defined > by whatever fields are requested. If the search requests fields A, B, C, > then all matched documents that have identical values for those 3 fields are > "dupes". The field list may change with every new search request. What I do > know is the super set of all fields that may be part of the field list at > index time. > > I know this can't be done with configuration alone. It doesn't seem > performant to retrieve all 1M+ docs and post process in Java. A very smart > person told me that a custom hit collector should be able to do the > filtering for me. So, maybe I create a custom search handler that somehow > exposes this custom hit collector that can use FieldCache or DocValues to > examine all the matches and filter the results in the way I've described > above. > > So assuming this is a viable solution path, can anyone suggest some helpful > posts, code fragments, books for me to review? I admit to being out of my > depth, but this requirement isn't going away. I'm grasping for straws right > now. > > thanks > (using Solr 4.9) > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Engage-custom-hit-collector-for-special-search-processing-tp4179348.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
