RE: search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-06 Thread Toke Eskildsen
kiwi clive [kiwi_cl...@yahoo.com]: > Thanks very much for the reply. I see there is not a quick win here but as > we are going through an index consolidation process, it may pay to make > the leap to 4.3 and put in facetting while I'm in there. We will get facetting > slowly through the back door w

Re: search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-06 Thread Shai Erera
he time to explain the situation. > > Clive > > > > > From: Shai Erera > To: "java-user@lucene.apache.org" ; kiwi > clive > Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 5:56 AM > Subject: Re: search-time facetting in Lucene > > > Hi Clive, > &

Re: search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-06 Thread kiwi clive
i clive Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 5:56 AM Subject: Re: search-time facetting in Lucene Hi Clive, In order to use Lucene facets you need to make indexing time decisions. It's not that you don't make these decisions anyway, even with Solr -- for example, you need to decide how to tokeniz

Re: search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-05 Thread Shai Erera
Hi Clive, In order to use Lucene facets you need to make indexing time decisions. It's not that you don't make these decisions anyway, even with Solr -- for example, you need to decide how to tokenize the fields by which you want to facet, or in Lucene 4.0 index them as SortedSetDocValuesField. I

search-time facetting in Lucene

2013-05-05 Thread kiwi clive
Hello all Lucene version 3.6.1. Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but is it possible to use search-time facetting on an existing lucene index without the need to reindex? My (limited) understanding is that FacetsCollector will pull facet data from indexes that have been created with