On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Joel Nylund wrote:
lets say I have a field called countryName, is there a way to get a
list of all the countries for this field? Trying to figure out a
nice way to keep my categories and the solr results in sync, would
be nice to get these from solr instead of the database.
A couple of ways, depending on what you want:
1) faceting, as part of the search results, filtered within
constraints (q/fq's): &facet=on&facet.field=countryName
2) TermsComponent: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/TermsComponent
Erik