Faceting with hierarchical taxonomy
You will have come across e-commerce sites that show facets in a hierarchy. Let's take a look at www.amazon.com and check how hierarchy is handled there. A search for "shoes" provides the following hierarchy:
Department Shoes -> Men -> Outdoor -> Hiking & Trekking -> Hiking Boots
Hierarchical facets on www.amazon.com
How is this hierarchy built into Solr and how do searches happen on it?
In earlier versions of Solr, this used to be handled by a tokenizer known as solr.PathHierarchyTokenizerFactory. Each document would contain the complete path or hierarchy leading to the document, and searches would show multiple ...
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