Joel, Thanks for the response. I updated the JIRA with 2 new patches. One for trunk, and one for branches/branch_5x. It would be great if it could get reviewed and make it in before 5.4 if it meets approval.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8306 Thanks, Marshall Sanders Technical Lead – Software Engineer Autotrader.com 404-568-7130 -----Original Message----- From: Joel Bernstein [mailto:joels...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 5:37 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Expand Component Fields Response Hi Marshall, This sounds pretty reasonable. I should have some to review the patch later in the week. Joel Bernstein http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Sanders, Marshall (AT - Atlanta) < marshall.sand...@autotrader.com> wrote: > Well I didn't receive any responses and couldn't find any resources so > I created a patch and a corresponding JIRA to allow the > ExpandComponent to use the TotalHitCountCollector which will only > return the total hit count when expand.rows=0 which more accurately > reflected my use case. (We don't care about the expanded document > itself, just the number available so that we can show something like > "52 more like this") > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8306 > > I'm not sure if this is the right forum for something like this, or > how to get feedback on the patch. If someone more knowledgeable could > help me out in that area it would be excellent. Thanks! > > Marshall Sanders > Technical Lead - Software Engineer > Autotrader.com > 404-568-7130 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sanders, Marshall (AT - Atlanta) [mailto: > marshall.sand...@autotrader.com] > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 11:00 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Expand Component Fields Response > > 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 > >