Good point - though the inverse could be true where only a few documents is
allowed and then a big list still exists. Even in the middle ground, its still
going to be a long list of thousands.
Thanks
Mike
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:58:33 +0000
> Subject: Re: Lower level filtering
> From: savvas.andreas.moysi...@googlemail.com
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>
> It might not be practical in your case, but is it possible to get from that
> other system, a list of ids the user is *not* allow to see and somehow
> invert the logic in the filter?
>
> Regards,
> -- Savvas.
>
> On 15 December 2010 14:49, Michael Owen <michaelowe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I'm currently using Solr and I've got a question about filtering on a lower
> > level than filter queries.
> > We want to be able to restrict the documents that can possibly be returned
> > to a users query. From another system we'll get a list of document unique
> > ids for the user which is all the documents that they can possibly see (i.e.
> > a base index list as such). The criteria for what document ids get returned
> > is going to be quite flexible. As the number of ids can be up to index size
> > - 1 (i.e. thousands) using a filter query doesn't seem right for entering a
> > filter query which is so large.
> > Can something be done at a lower level - perhaps at a Lucene level - as I
> > understand Lucene starts from a bitset of possible documents it can return -
> > could we AND this with a filter bitset returned from the other system? Would
> > this be a good way forward?
> > And then how would you do this in Solr with still keeping Solr's extra
> > functionality it brings over Lucene. A new SearchHandler?
> > Thanks
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
