How do you get the word in the first place? If the combobox is for all words in your index, it's probably completely useless to provide this information because there is too much data to guide the user at all. I mean a list of 10,000 words with some sort of document frequency seems to me to require significant developer work without adding to the user experience at all...
If that's the case, I'd really work with your customer and try to persuade them that this is a feature that adds little value, and that there are higher-value features you should do first. But if you really, really require the information, here's what I would recommend: Use TermDocs/TermEnum to traverse your index gathering this data *at index time*. Then create a *very special* document that you also put in your index (stored, but not indexed in this case) that contains an unique field (say frequencies). Upon startup of your searcher, read in this very special document, parse it and create a map of words and frequencies that you use to find the number of documents containing that word. Hope this helps Erick On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, roberto <miles.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Erick, > > Thanks for the answer, let me clarify the thing, we would like to have a > combobox with the terms to guide the user in the search i mean, if a have > thousands of documents and want to tell them how many documents in the base > have the particular word, how can i do that? > > thanks > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I think I'd pin the user down and have him give me the real-world > > use-cases that require this, then see if there's a more reasonable > > way to satisfy that use-case. Do they want type-ahead? What > > is the user of the system going to see? Because, for instance, > > a drop-down of 10,000 terms is totally useless. > > > > Best > > Erick > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:02 PM, roberto <miles.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Grant > > > > > > It completely crazy do something like this i know, but the customer > > want´s, > > > i´m really trying to figure out how to do it in a better way, maybe > using > > > the (auto suggest) filter from solr 1.3 to get all the words starting > > with > > > some letter and cache the letter in the client side, out client is > going > > to > > > be write in swing, what do you guys think? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > All terms from all docs? Really? > > > > > > > > At any rate, see http://wiki.apache.org/solr/TermsComponent May > need > > a > > > > mod to not require any field, but for now you can enter all fields > > (which > > > > you can get from LukeRequestHandler) > > > > > > > > -Grant > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 2:17 PM, roberto wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > >> > > > >> I need to get all terms from all documents to be placed in my > > interface > > > >> almost like the facets, how can i do it? > > > >> > > > >> thanks > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> "Without love, we are birds with broken wings." > > > >> Morrie > > > >> > > > > > > > > -------------------------- > > > > Grant Ingersoll > > > > > > > > Lucene Helpful Hints: > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/BasicsOfPerformance > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > "Without love, we are birds with broken wings." > > > Morrie > > > > > > > > > -- > "Without love, we are birds with broken wings." > Morrie >
