I want to programmatically retrieve the number of indexed documents. I.e., get the value of numDocs.
The only two ways I've come up with are searching for "*:*" and reporting the hit count, or sending an Http GET to http://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:8080/solr/admin/stats.jsp#core and searching for <stat name="numDocs" >xxxx </stat> in the response. Both seem to be overkill. Is there an easier way to ask SolrIndexSearcher, "what's numDocs"? (I'm doing this in Python, using Pysolr, if that matters.) Thanks!
