It's generally a bad idea to iterate a Hits object. In fact, Hits is deprecated in recent versions of Lucene. The underlying problem is that the query is re-executed every 100 responses or so.
First suggestion, create a Filter by iterating over your docid field and use that in your searches see several of the Searcher.search variants. Second suggestion, use one of the collector classes rather than Hits, e.g. TopDoc*, TopFieldDoc*, whichever suits. Best Erick On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Ian Vink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have documents with this simple schema in Lucene which I can not change. > docid: (int) > contents: (text) > > The user is given a list of 10,000 documents in a tree which they select to > search, usually they select 5000 or so. > > I only want to search those 5000 documents. I have the 'id' fields. That is > all. > > I do this now: > > Get the 'Hits' for all documents. > Loop through all Hits looking for any 'docid' that is in the 5000 selected > by the user > Add found docs to a collection of found documents and return that to the > UI. > > > Is there a better way of doing this? >
