Return 2 fields per facet.. name and id, for example? / facet value search

["R. Tan" <ta...@gmail.com>]

Sorry for the duplicate post, if ever, can anyone share their experience on
holding facet heading/value IDs in Solr?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Rihaed Tan <ta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a similar requirement to Matthew (from his post 2 years ago). Is
> this still the way to go in storing both the ID and name/value for facet
> values? I'm planning to use id#name format if this is still the case and
> doing a prefix query. I believe this is a common requirement so I'd
> appreciate if any of you guys can share what's the best way to do it.
>
> Also, I'm indexing the facet values for text search as well. Should the
> field declaration below suffice the requirement?
>
> <field name="category" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"
> required="true" multiValued="true"/>
>
> Thanks,
> R
>
>
>
>> Re: Return 2 fields per facet.. name and id, for example?
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>> Matthew Runo
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> Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:15:12 -0700
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>> Ahh... sneaky. I'll probably do the combined-name#id method.
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>> On Sep 7, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
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>>    On 9/7/07, Matthew Runo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>        I've found something which is either already in SOLR, or should be
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>        (as I can see it being very helpful). I couldn't figure out how to
>> do
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>        it though..
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>>        Lets say I'm trying to print out a page of products, and I want to
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>        provide a list of brands to filter by. It would be great if in my
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>        facets I could get this sort of xml...
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>>        <int name="adidas" id="1">45</int>
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>>        That way, I'd be able to know the brand id of adidas without having
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>        to run a second query somewhere for each facet to look it up.
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>>    If you can get the name from the id in your webapp, then index the id
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>    to begin with (instead of the name).
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>    <int name="1">45</int>
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>>     Or, if you need both the name and the id, index them both together,
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>    separated by a special character that you can strip out on the webapp
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>    side...
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>>    <int name="adidas#1">45</int>
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>>    -Yonik
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>