It might not be practical in your case, but is it possible to get from that other system, a list of ids the user is *not* allow to see and somehow invert the logic in the filter?
Regards, -- Savvas. On 15 December 2010 14:49, Michael Owen <michaelowe...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > I'm currently using Solr and I've got a question about filtering on a lower > level than filter queries. > We want to be able to restrict the documents that can possibly be returned > to a users query. From another system we'll get a list of document unique > ids for the user which is all the documents that they can possibly see (i.e. > a base index list as such). The criteria for what document ids get returned > is going to be quite flexible. As the number of ids can be up to index size > - 1 (i.e. thousands) using a filter query doesn't seem right for entering a > filter query which is so large. > Can something be done at a lower level - perhaps at a Lucene level - as I > understand Lucene starts from a bitset of possible documents it can return - > could we AND this with a filter bitset returned from the other system? Would > this be a good way forward? > And then how would you do this in Solr with still keeping Solr's extra > functionality it brings over Lucene. A new SearchHandler? > Thanks > Mike > > > > > >
