Thank you Daniel, it is a nice idea.

I wish there was a better solution, but we will go with yours it seems.

(still open for any other idea)
On Feb 22, 2013 7:47 PM, "Daniel Collins" <danwcoll...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We had something similar to be fair, a cluster information field which was
> unfortunately optional, so all the documents that didn't have this field
> set grouped together.
>
> It isn't Solr's fault, to be fair, we told it to group on the values of
> field Z, null is a valid value and lots of documents have that value so
> they all group together.  We got what we asked for :-)
>
> Our solution was to make that field mandatory, and in our indexing
> pipeline we will set that field to some unique value (same as the document
> key if necessary) if it isn't set already to ensure that every document has
> that field set appropriately.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Oussama Jilal
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 5:25 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Solr Grouping and empty fields
>
> OK I'm sorry if I did not explained well my need. I'll try to give a
> better explanation.
>
> What I have : Millions of documents that have a field X , another field
> Y and another field Z which is not required (So it can be empty in some
> documents and not in others).
>
> What I want to do : Search for docs that have the field X equals
> something and group them by field Z (so that only 1 document is returned
> for every field Z value), BUT I want documents who have field Z as empty
> to be included in the results (all of them), and sort the results by
> field Y (so I can't separate the request into two requests).
>
> I hope that this is clearer.
>
>
> On 02/22/2013 03:59 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote:
>
>> What?!?! You want them grouped but not grouped together?? What on earth
>> does that mean?! I mean, either they are included or they are not. All
>> results will be in some group, so where exactly do you want these "not to
>> be grouped together" documents to be grouped? In any case, please clarify
>> what your expectations really are.
>>
>> -- Jack Krupansky
>> -----Original Message----- From: Oussama Jilal
>> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 7:17 AM
>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Solr Grouping and empty fields
>>
>> Thank you Johannes, but I want the documents having the field empty to
>> be included in the results, just not to be grouped together, and if I
>> understood your solution correctly, it will simply remove those
>> documents from the results (Note : The field values are very variable
>> and unknown to me).
>>
>> On 02/22/2013 02:53 PM, Johannes Rodenwald wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Oussama,
>>>
>>> If you have only a few distinct, unchanging values in the field that you
>>> group upon, you could implement a FilterQuery (query parameter "fq") and
>>> add it to the query, allowing all valid values, but not an empty field. For
>>> example:
>>>
>>> fq=my_grouping_string_field:( value_a OR value_b OR value_c OR value_d )
>>>
>>> If you use SOLR 4.x, you should be able to group upon an integer field,
>>> allowing a range filter:
>>> (I still work with 3.6 which can only group on string fields, so i didnt
>>> test this one)
>>>
>>> fq=my_grouping_integer_field:[**1 TO *]
>>>
>>> --
>>> Johannes Rodenwald
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
>>> Von: "Oussama Jilal" <jilal.ouss...@gmail.com>
>>> An: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Februar 2013 12:32:13
>>> Betreff: Solr Grouping and empty fields
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to group some results in solr based on a field, but I don't want
>>> documents having that field empty to be grouped together, does anyone
>>> know how to achieve that ?
>>>
>>>
>>
> --
> Oussama Jilal
>
>

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