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Teun Duynstee updated SOLR-4496:
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    Description: 
The SimpleFacets component supports the prefix parameter to return only facets 
starting with that prefix. This feature should (IMO) be complemented by two 
more parameters to make it much more usefull (names could be improved on of 
course):
- limitLength: will return facets for only the first x characters of the real 
facets. If the real values are AAA, CC and CCC, the limitLength=1 parameter 
would cause the facets A and C to be returned, with the sum of the counts. This 
could typpically be used for a UI that allows you to select a first letter for 
fields with many facets.
- limitDelim: this would not truncate on a fixed length, but on the occurence 
of a certain character after the prefix. This would allow the user to search 
for hierarchical fields without having to resort to including each level of the 
hierarchy at index analysis. This way, the value of the filed cat would be 
'Comics>Marvel>Batman' and this would be found using 
prefix=Comics>&limitDelim=>. This would return the facet Marvel with the 
combined count for all undelying cat values.

I am working on a patch that would achieve this by postprocessing the resulting 
counts in getTermCounts(). However, this will not return the correct counts for 
multivalued fields. Also, the combination with field.limit is not easy. Any 
tips for how to implement this? I'm available to work on a patch. Or is it a 
bad idea anyway?


  was:
The SimpleFacets component supports the prefix parameter to return only facets 
starting with that prefix. This feature should (IMO) be complemented by two 
more parameters to make it much more usefull (names could be improved on of 
course):
- limitLength: will return facets for only the first x characters of the real 
facets. If the real values are AAA, CC and CCC, the limitLength=1 parameter 
would cause the facets A and C to be returned, with the sum of the counts. This 
could typpically be used for a UI that allows you to select a first letter for 
fields with many facets.
- limitDelim: this would not truncate on a fixed length, but on the occurence 
of a certain character after the prefix. This would allow the user to search 
for hierarchical fields without having to resort to including each level of the 
hierarchy at index analysis. This way, the value of the filed cat would be 
'Comics>Marvel>Batman' and this would be found using 
prefix=Comics>&limitDelim=>. This would return the facet Marvel with the 
combined count for all undelying cat values.

I am working on a patch that would achieve this by postprocessing the resulting 
counts in getTermCounts(). However, this will not return the correct counts for 
multivalued fields. Also, the combination with field.limit is not easy. Any 
tips for how to implement this? I'm available to work on a patch. Or is it a 
bad idia anyway?


    
> Support for faceting on the start of values
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-4496
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4496
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: search
>            Reporter: Teun Duynstee
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The SimpleFacets component supports the prefix parameter to return only 
> facets starting with that prefix. This feature should (IMO) be complemented 
> by two more parameters to make it much more usefull (names could be improved 
> on of course):
> - limitLength: will return facets for only the first x characters of the real 
> facets. If the real values are AAA, CC and CCC, the limitLength=1 parameter 
> would cause the facets A and C to be returned, with the sum of the counts. 
> This could typpically be used for a UI that allows you to select a first 
> letter for fields with many facets.
> - limitDelim: this would not truncate on a fixed length, but on the occurence 
> of a certain character after the prefix. This would allow the user to search 
> for hierarchical fields without having to resort to including each level of 
> the hierarchy at index analysis. This way, the value of the filed cat would 
> be 'Comics>Marvel>Batman' and this would be found using 
> prefix=Comics>&limitDelim=>. This would return the facet Marvel with the 
> combined count for all undelying cat values.
> I am working on a patch that would achieve this by postprocessing the 
> resulting counts in getTermCounts(). However, this will not return the 
> correct counts for multivalued fields. Also, the combination with field.limit 
> is not easy. Any tips for how to implement this? I'm available to work on a 
> patch. Or is it a bad idea anyway?

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