Two-Stage Federated Search Implementation

👋 Hi everyone! I just wanted to ask a question about federated search:

I see federated search has the capability for searching collections in parallel. However, I need to perform a two stage search, first stage gets a bunch of items with a group_id field, and then the second stage gets a bunch of the groups identified by the id. Is this something federated search can help me with? What do you guys think would be a good way to approach this problem? Also, you can assume that our data model is not hard fixed yet, so if there are any issues there, please let me know. Thanks!

Hi Todd! That's not possible with federated search. So you would have to do a search query, get the results and then send another separate search query.

Absolutely, thanks Jason! I really appreciate the quick response and good explanation.

Jason - do you think we can handle this scenario by an equivalent of INTERSECT between the two search results done using federated search?

You would have to do this on your application side... Federated search doesn't have the concept of intersect built-in

Oh ok. Thanks for the quick response Jason!