Alex, it sounds like it would make sense. Use cases could be i.e. clustering or similar techniques. However, in my opinion the point of view for such a modification is not the right.
I.e. one wants to have got several resultsets. I could imagine that one does a primary-query (the query for the displayed results) and a query to compute clustering-results. Now, you want to do different things with the result-sets. The primary-query needs faceting, highlighting, spellcheck and much more, wheareas the additional query only needs clustering or something like that. In your case, you do not want to apply highlighting for the whole set, since you do not need such information for every row. This is a general problem and I think a solution that makes it possible to create more than one "resultset" for a single solr-request would be applicable for more general use cases. What do you think? Kind regards, - Mitch Alex Baranau wrote: > > Hello Solr users and devs! > > Is there a way to limit number of rows to which highlighting applies? I > don't see any "hl.rows" or similar parameter description, so it looks like > I > need to enhance HighlightComponent to enable that. If it is not possible > currently, do you think it's worth adding such possibility? > > JFI my case, when I need this: I display on results page 20, 10 or 5 rows > only, but I need much more rows (100-500) to display additional data on > the > same page. Queries could be very complex and their execution time > (QueryComponent) is quite big. So I do want to fetch things via single > request. However, I noticed that with increasing number of rows, time > spent > in HighlightComponent increases dramatically. For those additional > hundreds > of rows I don't need highlighting at all. > > Actually, *ideally* it would be great to have the ability to specify > fields > returned for those extra rows as well. So I tend to think that adding this > features should not be based on changing HighlightComponent behaviour, but > changing QueryComponent or even "bigger" part somehow so that Solr query > accepts specifying extra group(s) of rows for fetching along with params > for > them (which not influence the searching process, like > formatting/highlighting, fields to return, etc.). Thus, we could execute > *one* search query and fetch different data for different purposes. > > Does this all make sense to you guys? > > Thank you, > Alex Baranau > ---- > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Hadoop - HBase > Lucene ecosystem search :: > http://search-lucene.com/<http://search-hadoop.com/> > > -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/How-to-limit-rows-to-which-highlighting-applies-tp1274042p1275962.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
