Solr query to combine date range faceting and pivot faceting

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This question is related to: Solr - count documents in the range of two date fields

In my schema, I have a DateRangeField called dateRange like mentioned in the other question.

I can do range facet queries on this field using this:

/select
?wt=json
&q=*:*
&facet=true
&facet.range=dateRange
&facet.range.start=NOW/DAY-30DAYS
&facet.range.end=NOW/DAY%2B1DAYS
&facet.range.gap=%2B1DAY
&rows=0

Now I have another string multi-valued field called interests on which I want to further bucket the date facets. Here is an example document:

{
  "id": "3",
  "dateRange": "[2017-12-08T00:00:00Z TO 2017-12-10T03:45:55.567Z]",
  "interests": ["hockey", "soccer"]
}

So I want to combine pivot faceting with the range faceting query I am doing above. Is there a way to do this?

As an alternative, I looked at going the JSON faceting route. But I can't get even the date range query to work. Here is the query:

curl http://localhost:8983/solr/gs2/query -d 'q=*:*&rows=0&
json.facet={ 
  dates_f : { 
    type : range, 
    field : dateRange, 
    start : "2017-12-01T00:00:00Z",
    end : "2017-12-14T00:00:00Z", 
    gap : "%2B1DAY"
  } 
} 
'

and this throws the following error:

{
  "responseHeader":{
    "zkConnected":true,
    "status":400,
    "QTime":55,
    "params":{
      "q":"*:*",
      "json.facet":"{ \n  dates_f : { \n    type : range, \n    field : dateRange, \n    start : \"2017-12-01T00:00:00Z\",\n    end : \"2017-12-14T00:00:00Z\", \n    gap : \"+1DAY\"\n  } \n} \n",
      "rows":"0"}},
  "error":{
    "metadata":[
      "error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException",
      "root-error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException",
      "error-class","org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient$RemoteSolrException",
      "root-error-class","org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient$RemoteSolrException"],
    "msg":"Error from server at http://xxx.xx.xx.xx:7574/solr/gs2_shard2_replica1: Unable to range facet on field:dateRange{type=date_range,properties=indexed,stored,omitTermFreqAndPositions,useDocValuesAsStored}",
    "code":400}}

Not sure why Solr cannot range facet on a DateRangeField.

Mysterion Mysterion · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-14T10:18:00

I didn't try JSON facet API for this use case, but you could pretty easy combine pivot faceting and range faceting, by adding 1 parameter:

facet.pivot={!range=r1}interests

and replacing facet.range parameter with this: {!tag=r1}dateRange

Pivot faceting supports combining with range facets, by using local parameter reference.

You will get results like this:

cricket 2
dateRange
2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
0
2017-12-02T00:00:00Z
2
2017-12-03T00:00:00Z
2
2017-12-04T00:00:00Z
1
2017-12-05T00:00:00Z
1
hockey 2
dateRange
2017-12-01T00:00:00Z
1
2017-12-02T00:00:00Z
2
2017-12-03T00:00:00Z
2
2017-12-04T00:00:00Z
1
2017-12-05T00:00:00Z
1

As usual full example is located there

Solr query to combine date range faceting and pivot faceting

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