Is it possible to specify a separate set of fields to return from the expand 
component which is different from the standard fl parameter?  Something like 
this:

fl=fielda&expand.fl=fieldb

Our current use case means we actually only care about the numFound from the 
expand component and not any of the actual fields.  We could also use a facet 
for the field we're collapsing on, but this means mapping from the field we 
collapsed on to the different facets and isn't very elegant, and we also have 
to ask for a large facet.limit to make sure that we get the appropriate counts 
back.  This is pretty poor for high cardinality fields.  The alternative is the 
current where we ask for the expand component and get TONS of information back 
that we don't care about.

Thanks for any help!

Marshall Sanders
Technical Lead - Software Engineer
Autotrader.com
404-568-7130

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