Support 'skip' in facet queries
Currently the results of facet queries can be limited adding the "count:n" parameter to select only the top n results.
If one is interested in seeing all results of a facet query, there is no other way than setting the 'count' value sufficiently high to make sure that all result are included in the response.
In the scenario of a large number of distinct values for the facet field those queries may, however, result in a large response with poor performance.
In order to be able to provide paging through facet results for better performance, it's necessary to have a mechanism for skipping first m elements and then selecting the next n, e.g.:
"&facet=fieldName,skip:m,top:n,sort:count"
Is there anything like that in pipeline?
Thanks
Benjamin Scheibe
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Thank you for your feedback. While it is unlikely we’ll address this suggestion in the near future, we’ll reassess based on the number of votes it receives.
Thanks,
Vinod
Azure Search Product Team