Ah - that's useful to know. Although in that case I'd suggest that the sensible thing for Luke to do would be to either remove the boost field, or show it as "unavailable", instead of (misleadingly) displaying it as 1.0...
Cheers, Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Andrzej Bialecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2006 19:07 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boost value and LUKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm pretty sure this is a bug or incompatibility with Luke - I'm using > boosted documents, and I seem to remember that Luke reported everything > as 1.0, even though my test applications showed things correctly. > > The boost in the final app is working fine, so the functionality of > Lucene appears to be correct. > This is not a bug or incompatibility - it's the way the boost values are stored in the index. Once the index is written down, the original boost values per field and per doc cannot be retrieved, because they are calculated into so called "fieldNorm" values. -- Best regards, Andrzej Bialecki <>< ___. ___ ___ ___ _ _ __________________________________ [__ || __|__/|__||\/| Information Retrieval, Semantic Web ___|||__|| \| || | Embedded Unix, System Integration http://www.sigram.com Contact: info at sigram dot com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************************** The information contained in this email message may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of viruses, no responsibility is accepted by Informa for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. Messages to and from the company are monitored for operational reasons and in accordance with lawful business practices. If you have received this message in error, please notify us by return and delete the message and any attachments. Further enquiries/returns can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
