On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Earwin Burrfoot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 02:01, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:47 PM, Earwin Burrfoot wrote: >> >>> If someone needs all results, they know it beforehand. Why can't they >>> write this collector themselves? It's trivial, just like you said. >> >> I'm not following your comment. Of course they can write it. But that's >> true for all the implementations we provide. >> >> However, the Collector stuff doesn't handle the post collection sort, so, it >> would require someone to hack some low level Lucene internals. Also, I >> think it's interesting to think about the case of getting most of the >> results, but maybe not all. >> > You mentioned sorting in a user-provided callback, that essentially > leaves only filling up an array/list inside the Collector. Maybe I > just misunderstood something. >
Sorry, I meant Lucene would provide a callback that Lucene would invoke after all collection is done and then the implementation would sort. But, yeah, we could simply provide it back unsorted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
