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Payload field facets

POST
/collections/:collection_name/facet
POST
/collections/:collection_name/facet
$curl -X POST http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/facet \
>     -H "api-key: <apiKey>" \
>     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>     -d '{
>  "key": "string"
>}'
200Successful
1{
2  "usage": {
3    "cpu": 1,
4    "io_read": 1,
5    "io_write": 1
6  },
7  "time": 0.002,
8  "status": "ok",
9  "result": {
10    "hits": [
11      {
12        "value": "string",
13        "count": 1
14      }
15    ]
16  }
17}
Retrieves facets for the specified payload field.
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api-keystring
API Key authentication via header

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired
Name of the collection to facet in

Query parameters

timeoutintegerOptional>=1
If set, overrides global timeout for this request. Unit is seconds.
consistencyinteger or enumOptional
Define read consistency guarantees for the operation

Request

Request counts of points for each unique value of a payload key
keystringRequired
Payload key to use for faceting.
shard_keystring or uint64 or list of strings or uint64s or anyOptional
limitinteger or nullOptional>=1
Max number of hits to return. Default is 10.
filterobject or anyOptional

Filter conditions - only consider points that satisfy these conditions.

exactboolean or nullOptional
Whether to do a more expensive exact count for each of the values in the facet. Default is false.

Response

successful operation
usageobject or any
timedouble
Time spent to process this request
statusstring
resultobject