I think Daniel was suggesting you write your own HitCollector with its own "int hits" counter var.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Cam Bazz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:25:39 PM > Subject: Re: TopDocs question > > Yes, I looked into implementing a custom collector that would return > number of hits, but - I could not. > > collect() can not access anything that is final, and final can not be > incremented. > > Any ideas? > > Best. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:05 AM, Daniel Noll wrote: > > Cam Bazz wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Could it harm if I make a > >> > >> searcher.search(query, Integer.MAX_VALUE) ? > >> > >> I just need to make a query to get the number of hits in this case, > >> but I dont know what the max hits will be. > > > > PriorityQueue will attempt to allocate an array of that size. > > > > But if you only need to know the *number* of hits, and don't need the hits > > themselves, then you should just use a custom HitCollector which increments > > a counter. It will run much faster. > > > > Daniel > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Noll --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
