: How does sorting and ranking working together in : Lucene? Are they mutually exclusive? If the search : result is ranked first, then sorting may not have much : value. If sorting is done first, then ranking doesnt : have any meaning?
Scoring (which is what i think you mean by ranking) is orthogonal to sorting. When you do a search, and get back a list of matches, you can get the score of any matching doc regardless of wether or not you Sort by a specific field -- or if you sort by a special SortComparator (which can use any arbitrary logic it wants to detemine an ordering of the results). -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
