Unfortunately a vague specification is all I have, due to the fact I am trying to replicate the functionality in a closed-source legacy search product. I suspect no-one at the company knows precisely how this works.
The purpose is ultimately to display to the user the entire number of 'hits' found in all documents where a hit is any place in the text of the fields searched (defined as 'qf' in the edismax search handler) where the search terms appear. Essentially it should be like counting the number of highlighted hits in a search with highlighting turned on. I could easily do this for just the number of documents returned, specified by the 'rows' parameter, by turning highlighting on and counting the snippets returned. But I want this value for the entire dataset, which I have a feeling will be too slow if I specify rows = total numFound. I just want it to count this number for the fields specified in 'qf'. If it could count all occurrences of terms that match wildcard queries, that would be good but not essential. Fuzzy/span queries aren't used. I would be fine with an approximation, for all I know this is how it works using the old search product. I hope this clarifies things a little, I realize it is a strange requirement that the user is unlikely to even understand, but nevertheless apparently the user must see something along the lines 'X documents found, Y hits found'. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Total-number-of-hits-within-all-documents-tp4022895p4022920.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
