All facet counts currently returned are _within_ the set of documents
constrained by query (q) and filter query (fq) parameters - just to
clarify what it does. Why? That's the general use case. Returning
back counts from differently constrained sets requires some custom
coding - perhaps as a custom facet plugin? (not sure if that'd do the
trick or not), but certainly a custom request handler would be able to
manage this.
Worst case, make two requests to Solr, of course. Less than ideal,
but pragmatic, and not necessarily a bad performer, especially with
HTTP caching in the mix.
[back in the day, the Collex @ NINES site made 3 requests to Solr for
every page view just to keep things simple architecturally for a
while.... one to get the search results and facets, one to render a
tag cloud given different criteria, and one simply to get the total
count of objects in the entire system to show at the bottom of the
page for hype/marketing purposes]
Erik
On Jul 22, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Jon Baer wrote:
This is *exactly* my issue ... very nicely worded :-)
I would have thought facet.query=*:* would have been the solution
but it does not seem to work. Im interested in getting these
*total* counts for UI display.
- Jon
On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Stefan Oestreicher wrote:
Hi,
I have a category field in my index which I'd like to use as a facet.
However my search frontend only allows you to search in one
category at a
time for which I'm using a filter query. Unfortunately the filter
query
restricts the facets as well.
My query looks like this:
?
q
=
content:foo
&fq=cat:default&fl=title,content&facet=true&facet.field=cat
What I'd like is to search only in the "default" category but get
the result
count of that query for all categories. I thought maybe I can use the
facet.query parameter but this doesn't seem to do what I want,
because the
result is the same.
Is there any way to accomplish this with only one request?
I'm using version 1.3 from trunk.
TIA,
Stefan Oestreicher
