> Is there any way to force the response to be "0 results" > from within a search component (and break out of the > component chain)? > > I'm doing some checks in my first-component and in some > cases would like to stop processing the request and just > pretend, that there are 0 results ...
Yes. You can disable all underlying components by their parameters.
setParam("query","false");
setParam("facet","false");
setParam("hl","false");
etc..
