There was some work done on this and it was added to the Lucene Sandbox. It's called SearchBean.

It provides a comparator for any field so you can sort by any field you want.

--Peter


On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:35 AM, Eric Jain wrote:

Is any work being done to allow results to be sorted according to the value
of a specific field, rather than by score?

Maintaining an in-memory mapping of document IDs to sortable fields a la
SearchBean does not seem to be a practical solution when working with a
large set of documents (1M).


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Eric Jain


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