Server-side filter value / facet value searches

[JasonStoltz]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. If you have a facet with something like 1 million potential values, it's infeasible for a user to find a particular Facet Value option to apply.

They need some sort of mechanism to search for Facet Values server-side.

Describe the solution you'd like

We'd need something on a connector to support additional data fetches like this. It might be to an entirely separate index, like one that specifically holds data on these facet values.

We'd also need updated facet or filter components that support making this additional API call.

I'm not entirely sure what the final solution might look like, but I discussed it with a user here: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-implement-a-custom-search-box-text-field-for-filtering-by-entity-labels-with-autocomplete/295818/3.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context Algolia supports this natively, for reference: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-methods/search-for-facet-values/.

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[JasonStoltz]

I closed https://github.com/elastic/search-ui/issues/624 in favor of this issue. Please see that issue for additional conversation and context.

[joemcelroy]

im closing this ticket until the API supports such feature.