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Retrieving Facets of a Collection

TLDR Digamber inquired about retrieving all facets of a collection. Kishore Nallan suggested using the collection summary endpoint, looping through the fields, and caching the results.

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Digamber

10:39 AM

Hey Guys,
Is there a way to retrieve all the facets of a collection

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Kishore Nallan

10:41 AM

Hit the collection summary end-point and go through all the returned fields, checking for facet: true

Digamber

10:52 AM

Hi yes, was hoping to get a better endpoint, as id have to loop through all the fields, which isnt ideal.

Maybe an idea for the future ?

Kishore Nallan

10:56 AM

Looping should be pretty cheap? You can maybe loop and cache it once and then reuse for future requests.

Digamber

10:56 AM

That is the plan, just wanted to avoid the excess if possible

Kishore Nallan

10:57 AM

So far, nobody has asked for this: if this comes up often, will consider.

Digamber

10:58 AM

Thanks, appreciate it

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