Try http://www.nabble.com/Lucene---Java-Users-f45.html
Updating may not be as easy as you think. You'll be changing your index *every* time a user accesses it. And your changes won't be seen until you close/reopen the searcher. But maybe you've worked it out already.... Erick On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:36 PM, John Xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Updating index is easy, I can have a background thread to do it. > > Someone mentioned the "searchable archive" before, where do I find it? > > Thanks, > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:12 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Sorting VS Scoring > > The problem here is that you'll have to keep deleting and > adding your documents in order to update the counter field for > all of these solutions, and I doubt that's what you really want > to do. There is much discussion of updating a document that's > already in the index, but I don't think it's there yet. > > I know this has been discussed in the mailing list, so you might > want to search the searchable archive on this... > > Best > Erick > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:01 PM, John Xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out what the best practice is in term of using > > sorting > > or customized scoring. > > > > For example, if I have want to index some static pages and rank them by > > how > > many times a page is viewed. I can get the page view counters and store > > them in the index document as a field COUNTER. I want to be able to > sort > > query result in the order of most viewed pages. I see three ways to do > > it: > > > > 1. Search result sorting > > > > Search.search(query, sort); > > > > 2. Use the counter itself as the score > > > > FieldScoreQuery("COUNTER", FieldScoreQuery.Type.INT); > > > > 3. Customize scoring > > > > Set boost on COUNTER field during index time > > > > > > > > I haven't got the last one working yet. Somehow, when I query, boost > > value > > on the COUNTER field is ignored. > > > > > > > > Any inputs? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > John X. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >