: I would then like to refer to these 'pseudo' field later in the request
: string. I thought this would be how I'd do it:
:
: f.my_facet_key.facet.prefix=a_given_prefix
...
that syntax was proposed in SOLR-1351 and a patch was made available, but
it was never commited (it only supported a subset of faceting, needed more
tests, and had unclear behavior about how the defaults where picked if
you combined f.key.facet.foo + f.field.facet.foo + facet.foo)
: I thought this would work, however it doesn't appear to. What does work is
: if I define the prefix and mincount in the local params:
:
: facet.field={!ex=dt key=my_facet_key
facet.prefix=a_given_prefix}the_facet_field
Correct, SOLR-4717 added support to Solr 4.3 for specifying all of the
facet options as local params such that that syntax would work. Given th
way the use of Solr and localparams have evolved over the years it was
considered a more natural and logical way to specify facet option on a per
field or per key basis.
: Is this expected? I'm also using sunspot and they construct the queries
: with keys as in my first example, i.e. facet.field={!ex=dt
: key=my_facet_key}the_facet_field&f.my_facet_key.facet.prefix=a_given_prefix
I can't comment on that ... i'm not sure why sunspot would assume that
behavior would work (unless someone looked at SOLR-1351 once upon a time
and assumed that would definitely be official at some point)
-Hoss
