Similarity.setDefault(new MySimilarity()) is certainly better than the 2 calls I recommended. Thanks.
I find it hard to see why one might not want to do this in normal usage but have a vague recollection of someone once outlining some obscure scenarios where different similarities at index and search time made sense. -- Ian. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote: >> [use] IndexWriterConfig.setSimilarity() and >> IndexSearcher.setSimilarity(), unless you are clever or like being confused. >> >> SweetSpotSimilarity might also be worth a look. >> >> -- >> Ian. > > Being even less clever, I just make sure I set: > > Similarity.setDefault(new MySimilarity()) > > when crawling and searching, so everything uses the same similarity > strategies. > > Checking the 3.4 code IndexWriterConfig and IndexSearcher, both default to > Similarity.getDefault(). > > Any thoughts on scenarios where you'd not push a custom similarity into the > default position? > > -Paul > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
