count distinct in solr without command line cURL
As always - right after you make a post on SO you find the answer. If someone could still shed some light on maybe a better way for me to be doing this I would be very grateful - but this technically works as a direct URL:
http://localhost:8983/solr/asdf/select?q=*:*&json.facet.x="unique(field)"&wt=json&indent=true&rows=0or using the syntax I used in the OP:
...$url = "http://localhost:8983/solr/asdf/select"; $post = "q=*:*&json.facet.x=\"unique(field)\"&rows=0&wt=json&indent=true";...The things I was missing is that:
- I had to name the json facet, (
&json.facet.x=instead of&json.facet=and the{ }characters need to be replaced with quotation marks" "in order for the query to work as a URL or a POST request.
I really hope this helps someone as it has been frustrating me to no end for about a month now.....