Hi,
I'm not sure if this applies to your use case but when I was building
our faceted search (see http://www.mysecondhome.co.uk/search.html) at
first I wanted to do the same, retrieve the minimum and maximum values
but when I did the few values that were a lot higher than the others
made it almost impossible to select a reasonable range. That's why I
switched to a fixed range of reasonable values with the last option
being "anything higher". This way the resultset is spread out pretty
evenly over the length of the slider. If the values over which you want
to do range selection don't vary a lot I think this is the best option,
otherwise I guess you'll have to use another solution. Maybe if the
values do change a lot but not very often you could generate new fixed
range values after updating Solr. If you think something like what I've
made is useful to you, I'll be happy to answer any questions about how I
implemented this.
Regards,
gwk
On 5/16/2010 10:07 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
On 16.05.2010, at 21:01, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/StatsComponent can give you
min and max values.
Sorry my bad, I just tested StatsComponent with tdate field. And it
is not working for date typed fields. Wiki says it is for numeric
fields.
ok thx for checking. is my use case really so unusual? i guess i could
store a unix timestamp or i just do a fixed range.
hmm if i use facets with a really large gap will it always give me at
least the min and max maybe? will try it out when i get home.
regards
Lukas
