Grouping on search result - RavenDB

Question

I have an index which displays text search results. Results are always displayed only for a single month.

I need to show how many results does each month has. Example is at the bottom.

I understand that Faceted search should do the job, but creating/generating ranges manualy is not possible and it would result in huge amount of ranges. I tried everything from official documentation, even ResultTransformers which is not the right tool. So I hope I must have overlooked something.

Map = transactions => from transaction in transactions
select new
    {
        Description = new object[] { transaction.Description, transaction.Items.Select(i => i.Name), transaction.Documents.Select(i => i.Name) },
        Account_UserName = transaction.Account.UserName,
        Time = transaction.Time
    };

Result I expect is something like this:

 [{
    Year: 2013,
    Month: 12,
    Count: 3
 },
 {
    Year: 2013,
    Month: 11,
    Count: 10
 }]

Answer 1

After some digging I found that Dynamic aggregation will do the job. I've added field month, because anonymous object didn't work.

Map = transactions => from transaction in transactions
select new
    {
        Value = transaction.Value,
        Description = new object[] { transaction.Description, transaction.Items.Select(i => i.Name) },
        Account_UserName = transaction.Account.UserName,
        Time = transaction.Time,
        Month = new DateTime(transaction.Time.Year, transaction.Time.Month, 1) // new field
    };

And then extended query by .AggregateBy(x => x.Month).CountOn(x => x.Month);

var result = _session.Query<Transaction, Transaction_Search>()
    .AggregateBy(x => x.Month)
    .CountOn(x => x.Month);

This produces, after some transformation, desired result.

Answer 2

You want to stamp each index record with a Month value and go from there:

Map = transactions => from transaction in transactions
select new
    {
        Description = new object[] { transaction.Description, transaction.Items.Select(i => i.Name), transaction.Documents.Select(i => i.Name) },
        Account_UserName = transaction.Account.UserName,
        Month = transaction.Time.Month + "/" + transaction.Time.Year, // To be able to group on Months
        Time = transaction.Time
    };

From there you can either use faceting on the Month field, or use a Reduce function to index Months with the totals to make this calculation searchable