Did you try using q.op=OR as request parameter? It should override the default boolean operator.
> On 14 Apr 2023, at 15:15, Steven White <swhite4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have the following very long query that I need to send to Solr: > >> search-text some-other-limits UNIQUE_MODELS:(19 OR 20 OR 9532 OR ...) > > See how I'm narrowing my query to a list of values limited to the field > UNIQUE_MODELS ? > > The number of items that can be passed to UNIQUE_MODELS can be very large > as such I'm hitting the URL character limit. > > This is legacy code and it is not feasible to change the HTTP from GET to > POST. Furthermore, the default boolean operator is AND and that too I > cannot change it to OR. > > Given the above, I was thinking if there is a way to shorten the request > I'm sending to Solr by eliminating the ORs inside UNIQUE_MODELS. That is, > build the Solr request such as telling Solr to use OR for items listed in > UNIQUE_MODELS, without repeating OR, but keep using the default AND for > everything else that could be part of this query. > > I.e.: can I say: UNIQUE_MODELS:(<user-OR> 19 20 9532 ...) > > Is there a Solr syntax to do this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Steven
