Both approaches are ok, I think. (although I don't know the python API) BTW: If you query q=*:* then add rows=0 to avoid some traffic.
Regards, Peter. > I want to programmatically retrieve the number of indexed documents. I.e., > get the value of numDocs. > > The only two ways I've come up with are searching for "*:*" and reporting the > hit count, or sending an Http GET to > http://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:8080/solr/admin/stats.jsp#core and searching for <stat > name="numDocs" >xxxx </stat> in the response. > > Both seem to be overkill. Is there an easier way to ask SolrIndexSearcher, > "what's numDocs"? > > (I'm doing this in Python, using Pysolr, if that matters.) > > Thanks!
