David Balmain wrote: > Hi Trent, > > The way to do this is to search for more than you need and then > actually go through each search result and count the types in a hash, > only adding a doc if it's type count is under the threshold. If you > failed to retrieve enough results then search again and repeat until > you get the required number of results. For those of you who know the > Lucene API, this is where a Hits class comes in handy. It'll be coming > in a future version. For now I'll show you the easiest wat by doing a > search and setting :num_docs to max_doc, thereby getting all search > results in one go; > > def get_results(search_str, max_type = 5, num_required = 10) > type_counter = Hash.new(0) > results = [] > index.search_each(search_str, :num_docs => index.size) do > |doc_id, score| > doc = index[doc_id] > if type_counter[doc[:type]] < max_type > results << doc > type_counter[doc[:type]] += 1 > end > break if results.size >= num_required > end > return results > end > > Hope that helps, > Dave
Hi, I suspected I'd have to do something like this. Thanks for putting me on the right path. Are there any concerns about scalability/speed when the index grows larger regarding searching the whole index like this? T -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
