On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:45 +0200, Erwin Wessels wrote:

> - The scan operation allows for (a.o.) hit-count information, but only
> for a term in a specific index. How could we retrieve the hitcount for a
> particular search string for *multiple* index fields separately?

Multiple calls to scan? :)  There just isn't a way to do that in one
interaction at the moment, I'm afraid.


> - Drill-down enabling information: information on hit counts for
> refining for (possibly) indicated indexes.
> In other words, functionally speaking, I'm looking for the refinement
> options when searching for title 'rabbit', for the index 'author' and a
> maximum records it would tell me 'Potter, Beatrix' (105 results),
> 'Wells, Rosemary' (63 results), 'Carroll, Lewis' (41 results), and 954
> more refinements.

Suggested future query terms should use extensions.  In 1.1, these need
to be extraResponseData, but in 1.2 there will be a slot in the
echoedQuery for including information about the individual clauses of
the query.


Rob

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