On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Michael McCandless<luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Yonik Seeley<yo...@lucidimagination.com> > wrote: >> Why is "reversed" passed into SortField.getComparator(), and what does it >> mean? >> Should it always be passed as sortField.getReversed() (and if so, why >> does the param exist at all)? > > reversed may be passed on to some comparators (currently only > StringOrdVal and CUSTOM) so that they can possibly optimize when that > field is the primary sort.
OK, it sounds like it should always be the same as SortField.getReversed() then? In which case it seems redundant to pass it into SortField.getComparator() since SortField already keeps track of it? -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
