Hi Marshall, This sounds pretty reasonable. I should have some to review the patch later in the week.
Joel Bernstein http://joelsolr.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Sanders, Marshall (AT - Atlanta) < marshall.sand...@autotrader.com> wrote: > Well I didn't receive any responses and couldn't find any resources so I > created a patch and a corresponding JIRA to allow the ExpandComponent to > use the TotalHitCountCollector which will only return the total hit count > when expand.rows=0 which more accurately reflected my use case. (We don't > care about the expanded document itself, just the number available so that > we can show something like "52 more like this") > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8306 > > I'm not sure if this is the right forum for something like this, or how to > get feedback on the patch. If someone more knowledgeable could help me out > in that area it would be excellent. Thanks! > > Marshall Sanders > Technical Lead - Software Engineer > Autotrader.com > 404-568-7130 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sanders, Marshall (AT - Atlanta) [mailto: > marshall.sand...@autotrader.com] > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 11:00 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Expand Component Fields Response > > Is it possible to specify a separate set of fields to return from the > expand component which is different from the standard fl parameter? > Something like this: > > fl=fielda&expand.fl=fieldb > > Our current use case means we actually only care about the numFound from > the expand component and not any of the actual fields. We could also use a > facet for the field we're collapsing on, but this means mapping from the > field we collapsed on to the different facets and isn't very elegant, and > we also have to ask for a large facet.limit to make sure that we get the > appropriate counts back. This is pretty poor for high cardinality fields. > The alternative is the current where we ask for the expand component and > get TONS of information back that we don't care about. > > Thanks for any help! > > Marshall Sanders > Technical Lead - Software Engineer > Autotrader.com > 404-568-7130 > >