Peter, It sounds like you could achieve what you want to do in a PostFilter rather then extending the TopDocsCollector. Is there a reason why a PostFilter won't work for you?
Joel On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Peter Keegan <peterlkee...@gmail.com>wrote: > Quick question: > In the context of a custom collector, how does one get the values of a > field of type 'ExternalFileField'? > > Thanks, > Peter > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Peter Keegan <peterlkee...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi Joel, > > > > This is related to another thread on function query matching ( > > > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Function-query-matching-td4099807.html#a4105513 > ). > > The patch in SOLR-4465 will allow me to extend TopDocsCollector and > perform > > the 'scale' function on only the documents matching the main dismax > query. > > As you mention, it is a slightly intrusive design and requires that I > > manage my own PriorityQueue (and a local duplicate of HitQueue), but > should > > work. I think a better design would hide the PQ from the plugin. > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Joel Bernstein <joels...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Peter, > >> > >> I've been meaning to revisit configurable ranking collectors, but I > >> haven't > >> yet had a chance. It's on the shortlist of things I'd like to tackle > >> though. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Peter Keegan <peterlkee...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > I looked at SOLR-4465 and SOLR-5045, where it appears that there is a > >> goal > >> > to be able to do custom sorting and ranking in a PostFilter. So far, > it > >> > looks like only custom aggregation can be implemented in PostFilter > >> (5045). > >> > Custom sorting/ranking can be done in a pluggable collector (4465), > but > >> > this patch is no longer in dev. > >> > > >> > Is there any other dev. being done on adding custom sorting (after > >> > collection) via a plugin? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Peter > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Joel Bernstein > >> Search Engineer at Heliosearch > >> > > > > > -- Joel Bernstein Search Engineer at Heliosearch