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Hoss Man commented on SOLR-5463:
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bq. Maybe "continuation"/"nextContinuation" or "continue"/"nextContinue" or
"pos"/"nextPos"? (I don't love any of them.)
Of all the ideas so far, i _dislike_ {{cursor}} & {{cursorAdvance}} the _least_
of all.
But i think you're on to something here...
bq. You want to convey a (resumption) position in a result sequence. A cursor
is not itself a position; it's a movable pointer to a position. The value of
the cursor param is not the cursor itself; rather, it's the position from which
to resume iterating over a result sequence.
Perhaps the key here is to pick a param name that makes it clear it's not a
"cursor name" is a "position along the progression of a cursor" ... things like
{{cursorPosition}}, {{cursorPoint}}, and {{cursorValue}} seems like they could
all easily suffer the same confusion as {{searchAfter}} .. but perhaps we could
find a suitable "attribute" qualifier on cursor that is more clearly and
obviously disjoint from something the user might think they can define on their
own?
* {{cursorMark}} / {{nextCursorMark}}
* {{cursorPhase}} / {{nextCursorPhase}}
* {{cursorToken}} / {{nextCursorToken}}
* {{cursorPosToken}} / {{nextCursorPosToken}}
Any of this sounding resoundingly better then the existing ideas to anyone? I
think my new favorite is {{cursorMark}} / {{nextCursorMark}} ... they seem
suitably abstract that people won't try to presume they know what they mean.
> Provide cursor/token based "searchAfter" support that works with arbitrary
> sorting (ie: "deep paging")
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>
> Key: SOLR-5463
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5463
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Hoss Man
> Assignee: Hoss Man
> Attachments: SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch, SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch,
> SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch, SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch,
> SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch, SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch,
> SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch, SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch,
> SOLR-5463__straw_man.patch
>
>
> I'd like to revist a solution to the problem of "deep paging" in Solr,
> leveraging an HTTP based API similar to how IndexSearcher.searchAfter works
> at the lucene level: require the clients to provide back a token indicating
> the sort values of the last document seen on the previous "page". This is
> similar to the "cursor" model I've seen in several other REST APIs that
> support "pagnation" over a large sets of results (notable the twitter API and
> it's "since_id" param) except that we'll want something that works with
> arbitrary multi-level sort critera that can be either ascending or descending.
> SOLR-1726 laid some initial ground work here and was commited quite a while
> ago, but the key bit of argument parsing to leverage it was commented out due
> to some problems (see comments in that issue). It's also somewhat out of
> date at this point: at the time it was commited, IndexSearcher only supported
> searchAfter for simple scores, not arbitrary field sorts; and the params
> added in SOLR-1726 suffer from this limitation as well.
> ---
> I think it would make sense to start fresh with a new issue with a focus on
> ensuring that we have deep paging which:
> * supports arbitrary field sorts in addition to sorting by score
> * works in distributed mode
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