On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Yonik Seeley<yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael
> McCandless<luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Yonik Seeley<yo...@lucidimagination.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> In fact I think SortField.getComparator should be package private?
>>>
>>> It would be nice to keep - Solr already uses it :-)
>>
>> Intersting!  OK I'll leave it public but put "subject to suddenly
>> change" warning on it.
>
> Sure.  Using that method allowed me to delete a lot of SortComparator
> code that was previously copy-n-pasted from Lucene into Solr.
>
> Solr is basically using the comparators to get the sort field values
> to return during distributed search, so docs can be merged.   Yes, we
> should be able to get that from FieldDoc... but that would require a
> number of changes to the APIs, and also to caching.

OK got it.  I'll post a patch soon...

Mike

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