I understand what you are trying to say about the problem of sorting a tokenized field.
The reason why i try to sort a tokenized field is that I need to have a field to be both sortable and searchable in different time. Searchable field requires tokenized field while sortable field requires un-tokenized field. The worse solution is to have another duplicated field which is un-tokenized but it is not scalable when we have lots of fields need to be searchable. And that's why I was asking for a good solution other than a quick fix. Erick Erickson wrote: > > Lucene sorting is intended to sort documents relative to each other. > So it makes no sense to allow sorts on tokenized fields in the > Lucene context. Imagine the separate tokens in a field for doc1 of > a, c and e, and for doc2 b, d and f. Where should doc1 go in > relation to doc2 when sorting on that field? There's no good > *general* answer that I've been able to see. > > So I suspect you really want to do something that's not > document sorting, and if you'd make a clearer statement of > what you're trying to accomplish I'm sure you'd get better > answers than mine. > > Best > Erick > > On 4/10/07, Joe Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> My task is to index lots of documents with different fields. Some of the >> fields are tokenized and are going to be sorted later on when a list of >> result set is need to particular field. Unfortunately, Lucene complains >> about sort on a tokenized field. >> >> So is there any way to get around of it? >> >> Thanks in advance!! >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/How-to-sort-on-a-tokenised-field--tf3555450.html#a9927597 >> Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-sort-on-a-tokenised-field--tf3555450.html#a9928177 Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
