colings86 commented on a change in pull request #680: LUCENE-8803: Provide a FieldComparator to allow sorting by a feature from a FeatureField URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/680#discussion_r285963631
########## File path: lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FeatureComparatorSource.java ########## @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ +package org.apache.lucene.search; + +import java.io.IOException; + +import org.apache.lucene.document.FeatureField; +import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext; +import org.apache.lucene.index.PostingsEnum; +import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms; +import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum; +import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef; + +/** Provides a comparator that parses a feature field's values as float and sorts by descending value */ +public class FeatureComparatorSource extends FieldComparatorSource { + + private final BytesRef featureName; + private final Float missingValue; + + /** + * Creates a {@link FieldComparatorSource} that can be used to sort hits by + * the value of a particular feature in a {@link FeatureField}. Note that the + * field name to use for the sort will be specified by the {@link SortField}. + * + * @param featureName The name of the feature to use for the sort value + * @param missingValue The value to use for documents that don't have a value + * for the feature. If <code>null</code>, documents with no value for the + * feature will be sorted as if their value is <code>0.0f</code>. + */ + public FeatureComparatorSource(BytesRef featureName, Float missingValue) { + this.featureName = featureName; + this.missingValue = missingValue; Review comment: So we should always assume a value of `0.0f` if the value is missing then? I think that makes sense since the feature is stored as a term frequency so not having a value corresponds to having a term frequency of 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
