Add API endpoint for returning Solr facet information about a query
afred opened this issue · 0 comments
Because
@foo4thought Has brought up a use case for wanting to use the HTTP api for getting additional query information from Solr, such as numFound
and facet counts for arbitrary lucene queries.
Background
you can already see this in action accidentally when adding a .json
extension to a regular catalog query URL, e.g. https://americanarchive.org/catalog?f[id]=cpb-aacip-ba6625ecc98&format=json&f[access_types][]=all
The problem with this though, is that it's going through blacklight, and the /api
queries do not.
However the CatalogController's JSON response includes facet data from Solr while the ApiController's JSON response does not.
Done when
We have an API endpiont (at /api.json
or somewhere else equally intuitive) that returns facet data as part of the JSON response.