Hi, Is there a way to query all numbers that is close to a particular number (query), and score by how close they are to that number (query) ?
To illustrate further, assume document with single field "num", and the value for this field can only be integer number. Now, let says, there are 3 documents (doc1, doc2, doc3) with the following "num" values .... 1, 10, and 100. Hence if we query for 12, the return results should be order by doc2, doc1, doc3. Since 10 is closer to 12, follows by 1, and finally follows by 100. Is there a way to do this easily in Lucene ?
From my searches, there seems to be a FunctionQuery in Solr that can do this
type of query. But I am using pure Lucene, and trying to port Solr code over (to create my own version of FunctionQuery) looks too complicated because of code dependency on other Solr code such as ValueSource, etc. I have also search on how to write my own query instance, but there is lack of documentation on doing so. The formula to calculate the number proximity is quite trivial. But how to stitch together Query, Weight, Scorer is the problem :( Any suggestion is greatly appreciated :) ~KEGan
