I think another challenge here is in distributed mode, how would you merge the ranges from subsearchers? -John
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>wrote: > > : my documents (products) have a price field, and I want to have > : a "dynamically" calculated range facet for that in the response. > ... > : So the question is how to get the dynamic facets response from solr. > : > : This is same question as previously posted back in 2007. But still waits > an > : answer?? > : Is there any solution on this?? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "still waits an answer" ... the email thread > you cut/pasted your example from gots lots of answers. My comments today > are exactly the same as they were then (and in the 2006 threads i > linked to back in 2007)... > > > http://www.nabble.com/Dynamically-calculated-range-facet-to11314725.html#a11314725 > http://www.nabble.com/faceted-browsing-to3655780.html#a3753053 > > in summary... > * this is a hard problem to implement in a generic manner > * it's much easier to do when you have some domain knowledge (ie: field is > in dollars) > > What's changed since then is... > 1) we have SearchComponents now > 2) we have a stats component which does the hard work of finding > min/max/avg/etc... > > It would be fairly easy to write a custom component that expected to run > after the stats component to then get the counts for whatever ranges it > thought were appropriate -- but knowing when to use ranges of "20" vs > ranges of "100" is a very subejctive thing. > > > > > > > > -Hoss > >
