Thanks! On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Peter Karich wrote:
> Both approaches are ok, I think. (although I don't know the python API) > BTW: If you query q=*:* then add rows=0 to avoid some traffic. > > Regards, > Peter. > >> I want to programmatically retrieve the number of indexed documents. I.e., >> get the value of numDocs. >> >> The only two ways I've come up with are searching for "*:*" and reporting >> the hit count, or sending an Http GET to >> http://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:8080/solr/admin/stats.jsp#core and searching for <stat >> name="numDocs" >xxxx </stat> in the response. >> >> Both seem to be overkill. Is there an easier way to ask SolrIndexSearcher, >> "what's numDocs"? >> >> (I'm doing this in Python, using Pysolr, if that matters.) >> >> Thanks!
