: But how can you use both the MissingStringLastComparatorSource and also your
: own custom SortComparator (i.e. having a custom getComparable() method)?
:
: I have tried the obvious, which was to make my custom SortComparator extend
: MissingStringLastComparatorSource instead of SortComparator. B
Chris Hostetter wrote:
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> : If i rememebr correctly (you'll have to test this) sorting on a field
> : which doesn't exist for every doc does what you would want (docs with
> : values are listed before docs without)
>
> : The actual behavior is different than described above. I modified
> :
excluding them completely is a slightly differnet task, you don't need to
index a special marker value, you can just use a
RangeFilter (or ConstantScoreRangeQuery) to ensure you only get docs with
a value for that field (ie: field:[* TO *])
Excellent, this is a much better solution. BTW, adding
: If i rememebr correctly (you'll have to test this) sorting on a field
: which doesn't exist for every doc does what you would want (docs with
: values are listed before docs without)
: The actual behavior is different than described above. I modified
: TestSort.java:
: The actual order of the
