: there a fast & easy way to retrieve this number (instead of searching for : "*:*" and counting the results)?
NOTE: you don't have to count the results to know the total number of docs matching any query ... just use the numFound attribute of the <results/> block. : I already took a look at the stats.jsp code - but there the number of : documents is retrieved via an api call to SolrInfoRegistry and not the : webservice. stats.jsp returns welformed xml (not HTML) so why not just hit that to extract the numDocs ? -Hoss
