[SOLR-11695] JSON FacetModule needs equivilents for StatsComponent's "count" and "missing" features

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 8.4
• Component/s: Facet Module
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chris M. Hostetter
• Created: 28/Nov/17 21:50
• Updated: 29/Dec/19 20:51
• Resolved: 22/Nov/19 13:26

Description

StatsComponent supports stats named "count" and "missing":

• count: for the set of documents we're computing stats over, "how many non-distinct values exist in those documents in the specified field?" (or in the case of an arbitrary function: "in how many of these documents does true==ValueSource.exist()" ?)
  • no to be confused with the number of unique values (aprox "cardinality" or exact "countDistinct")
• missing: for the set of documents we're computing stats over, "how many of those documents do not have any value in the specified field?" (or in the case of an arbitrary function: "in how many of thse documents does false==ValueSource.exist()" ?)

(NOTE: for a single valued field, these are essentially inveses of each other, but for multivalued fields "count" actaully returns the total number of "value instances" not just the number of docs that have at least one value)

AFAICT there is no equivalent functionality supported by the JSON FacetModule, which will be a blocker preventing some users from migrating from using stats.field (or facet.pivot+stats.field) to json.facet.