Hi, Not sure what the resolution on this has been. But, I also have this need and I am using 1.2 release of solr. If there is a workaround so I can get this functionality, please advise. It will be very helpful.
Thanks. Laurent Hoss wrote: > > Hi > > We want to (mis)use facet search to get the number of (unique) field > values appearing in a document resultset. > I thought facet search perfect for this, because it already gives me > all the (unique) field values. > But for us to be used for this special problem, we don't want all the > values listed in response as there might be over 10000 and we don't need > the values at all, just the count of how many! > > I looked at > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters > and hoped to find a parameter like > facet.sizeOnly = true > (or facet.showSize=true , combined with facet.limit=1 or other small > value) > > Would you accept a patch with such a feature ? > > It should probably be relatively easy, though not sure if fits into the > concept of facets.. > > I looked at the code, maybe add an extra Value to returned NamedList of > getFacetCounts() in SimpleFacets ?! > > ps: Other user having same request AFAIU : > http://www.nabble.com/showing--range-facet-example-%3D-by-Range-%28-1-to-1000-%29-t3660704.html#a10229069 > > thanks, > > Laurent Hoss > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-only-size-of-getFacetCounts-%2C-to-simulate-count%28group-by%28-a-field%29-%29-using-facets-tf4482430.html#a13532933 Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
