Maybe "Range Intersect Faceting"? On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 1:11 PM Greg Miller <gsmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks- > > Naming is hard! (But you all know that already). > > Marc D'Mello and I have been working on a new faceting implementation > that's meant to complement Lucene's existing range-relation queries (e.g., > LongRange#newIntersectsQuery, DoubleRange#newContainsQuery, > LongRangeDocValuesField#newSlowIntersectsQuery, etc.). Well, I should say > Marc is working on the change and I'm just providing nit-picky feedback on > his PR, which is here: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/11901. The > general idea of this feature is to allow users to get facet counts for > these sorts of range-relation filters before they're applied. For example, > if a user is indexing ranges with their documents, they may have a set of > query-ranges they want to facet on, based on some range relationship (e.g., > intersection, contains, etc.). > > As a concrete example, imagine that documents contain a price range (maybe > a document represents some e-commerce product but the price varies based on > some configuration options), and a user wants to build a price range filter > that applies filtering based on whether-or-not the two ranges intersect > (i.e., DoubleRange#newIntersectsQuery to apply a price range filter). This > user wants faceting capabilities over the different price ranges they want > to make available, so they need a way to facet over a list of provided > query-ranges, based on the "intersect" relationship with the doc-encoded > ranges. That's what Marc's "RangeOnRange" faceting is trying to accomplish. > > In my opinion, the PR is really close to being ready (thanks again Marc!), > but I'm wondering if we can come up with a more descriptive name. As it > currently stands, the feature is termed "RangeOnRange Faceting," which > feels just a bit wonky to me. That said, I can't really come up with > anything better. > > ** Does anyone have suggestions on a better name? ** > > Any / all suggestions appreciated! (And of course, any other input on the > PR is welcome if anyone is interested). > > Cheers, > -Greg > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) http://www.the111shift.com (play)
