Greetings Everyone, I'm thinking of trying to build something that manipulates a query score in order to achieve a sort order other then the default relevance sort. The idea is to create a new type of query: SortingQuery( Query query, String sortByField )
It would run the sub-query and return results in an order of the values found in the "sortByField" for those documents. Now, I've looked at all of the sorting discussion prior to this, and the best approach (recommended by Doug among others) is to provide some sort of a fast access to the field values inside the HitCollector. Reading documents at search time is too slow, so people access the data elsewhere or build an in-memory index of that data (such as is done in the SearchBean's SortField). My idea is different. I want to try to do the following: - compose a query that consists of the original sub-query followed by a special "sorting query" - "boost" the score of the original sub-query to 0 - compute the score of the sorting query such that it would reflect the desired sort order Has anyone tried to do something like this? Would this work? Is this worth doing? If it would, would then I have to do something during the indexing time to set normalization / scoring factors for that field to something or other? Thanks. Dmitry. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
