Hi Yonik:
A simple RangeFilter did the trick
> public class NotNullRangeFilter extends org.apache.lucene.search.Filter {
> private RangeFilter rangeFilter;
> public BitSet bits(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
> rangeFilter = RangeFilter.More("lastUpdatedDate"/*Field to sort*/,
> "" /*atleast an empty string but not null*/);
> return rangeFilter.bits(reader);
> }
> }
the above code actually works perfectly.
On 10/14/08, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You're on the right track I think... perhaps try using RangeFilter
> directly rather than creating your own class. Something like:
>
> Filter filter = RangeFilter.More("lastUpdatedDate","");
> searcher.search(query, filter)
>
> If that works for you, then the next step would be to look at
> CachingWrapperFilter, which can help prevent calculating the filter
> for every query.
>
> -Yonik
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Reetha Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Yonik,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > In my case I don't want those document that has Null value for the field
> > that I am willing to sort
> >
> > I tried writing my own filter using RangeFilter, but it doesn't work.
> >
> > I used something like the following in my custom filter.
> >
> > public class NotNullRangeFilter extends org.apache.lucene.search.Filter {
> > private RangeFilter rangeFilter;
> > public BitSet bits(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
> > rangeFilter = RangeFilter.More("lastUpdatedDate"/*Field to sort*/,
> > "" /*atleast an empty string but not null*/);
> > return rangeFilter.bits(reader);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > The above does not work. Let me know if I am doing something wrong.
> >
> > Any inputs on this ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Reetha Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > I am searching using one field, say X and want to sort the results
> using
> >> > another, say Y (Which can have null values). But I am expecting Sort
> to
> >> > ignore all the null values and just sort only records that has values
> in
> >> Y
> >> > field.
> >>
> >> Do you want docs with null (missing) values in the results or not?
> >> If so, they need to go somewhere (before or after the others).
> >> If you don't want those docs at all, exclude them in the query, or
> >> with a filter.
> >>
> >> -Yonik
> >>
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