Grrrr, I think it's that AUTO sorting again...
Check out this bug:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-463
If you specify a string sort explicitly, it should work.
If you are using a multisearcher, please upgrade to the latest lucene
version (there have been some sorting bug fixes).
-Yonik
On 11/28/05, Michael Pow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to reverse sort a result set by it's date field (YYYYMMDDhhmm).
>
> pseudocode:
> Boolean order = {false | true};
> Sort sorter = new Sort(new SortField("date", order));
> hits = indexSearcher.search(<query>, <filter>, sorter);
>
> When order = false, I correctly get the results sorted from the smallest
> date to the greatest, which also happens to be the order of insertion
> into the index. When order = true (attempting to do reverse sort), it
> comes back almost correctly sorted from the largest date to the
> smallest, but it isn't exactly correct. I'm surprised that switching
> the 'reverse' flag from false to true doesn't exactly invert the result
> set. Has anyone encountered this before? I can provide more details if
> necessary.
>
> Below is a result set ordered by date in reverse order
> format is {doc#, date}
>
> found : 44894 200511140845
> found : 31319 200511090101
> found : 33972 200511091353
> found : 35404 200511100600
> found : 36715 200511100729
> found : 26842 200511071324
> found : 27266 200511071734
> found : 27272 200511071738
> found : 27442 200511071826
> found : 15261 200511021245
> found : 16686 200511030630
> found : 17499 200511030706
> found : 17500 200511030706
> found : 3941 200510281753
>
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