You might want to take a look at Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/). You could either use Solr directly, or see how they implement paging.
--Mike On Dec 26, 2007 12:12 PM, Zhou Qi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using the search function for pagination will carry out unnecessary index > search when you are going previous or next. Generally, most of the > information need (e.g 80%) can be satisfied by the first 100 documents > (20%). In lucene, the returing documents is set to 100 for the sake of > speed. > > I am not quite sure my way of pagination is best: but it works fine under > test preasure: Just keep the first search result in cache and fetch the > snippet when the document is presented in current page. > > 2007/12/26, Dragon Fly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > Any advice on this? Thanks. > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > > > Subject: Pagination ... > > > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:19:30 -0500 > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > What is the most efficient way to do pagination in Lucene? I have > always > > done the following because this "flavor" of the search call allows me to > > specify the top N hits ( e.g. 1000) and a Sort object: > > > > > > TopFieldDocs topFieldDocs = searcher.search(query, null, 1000, > > SORT_BY_DATE); > > > > > > Is it the best way? Thank you. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! > > > http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlhmtextlink1_dec > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get the power of Windows + Web with the new Windows Live. > > http://www.windowslive.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_powerofwindows_122007 >