On the face of it, it looks like one of the subclasss of lucene.search.Filter should be what you're looking for. Or is the "dynamic slice" something you couldn't formulate into a query?
Best Erick On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Earl Hood <earlh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I require the ability to perform a search on a dynamic slice of documents in > an index. For a given event, only a select set of documents should be > considered when performing a query. > > Looking at the API, it appears that I can use a Collector during the search > to filter out any documents that do not match the current allowed set. > However, the API docs state the following about the collect() method of > Collector: > > Note: This is called in an inner search loop. For good search > performance, implementations of this method should not call > Searcher.doc(int) or IndexReader.document(int) on every hit. Doing so > can slow searches by an order of magnitude or more. > > Unfortunately, it appears I need to use such methods since I will need to > access the specific document fields to determine if the document is part of > the allowable search set. > > Is the performance hit considerable? > > I noticed some information about term caching and filtering, but I'm a bit > fuzzy on how to exactly use it and if it is applicable to what I'm trying > to do. > > Any help is appreciated, > > --ewh > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
