On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Yevgeniy Belman <ysbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am curious if this is expected behavior in a typical facet with range
> query:
> params={facet=true,facet.query=[price:[* TO 500], price:[500 TO
> *]],q=*:*,facet.field=price
>
> i am getting back not only the:
> facet_queries={price:[* TO 500]=2,price:[500 TO *]=3}
>
> but also:
> facet_fields={price={150.99=1,199.99=1,699.99=1,930.0=1,2300.0=1}
You are adding both facet.query=price[... and the facet.field=price
parameters so the response contains results for both.
I was searching for a way to create the elusive "dynamic" amount ranges, and
> this would allow me to do it on the client side for sure, but is this
> right?
> Solr will send all of this data back? It consists of every price variant
> with a count. In my case 5 prices were all unique. If real data were used
> could this be too big to send across?
>
> SimpleFacet.getFacetCounts() populates the response object with it. Is this
> an appropriate place to calculate my dymic amount ranges and replace
> facet_fields:
> res.add("facet_queries", getFacetQueryCounts());
> res.add("facet_fields", getFacetFieldCounts()); // <-- replace with
> "Dynamic" facets
> res.add("facet_dates", getFacetDateCounts());
>
> or should it be done sooner, somewhere in getFieldCacheCounts() where the
> itteration through all the 5 docs is happening?
>
By dynamic ranges, do you mean that you want min and max values? If yes, you
can look at StatsComponent (it is a 1.4 feature, so you'll need to use the
nightly builds).
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/StatsComponent
--
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
