Your coworker *might* have been talking about a Hits object when iterating over it for documents past the 100th or so. See the discussion list of the wiki for the messy details.
Well, you can always sort by a field rather than by score, see SortField and associated. And you can always specify secondary and tertiary... sorts. I'll leave it to others for other suggestions since I'm in a rush. Best Erick On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Lebiram <lebi...@ymail.com> wrote: > > Sorry, I might have misunderstood what my coworker told me. > > If HitCollector only returns a document once then he might be referring to > an application ID that is assigned to a field that has been indexed twice or > more with different document IDs. > > I'll clarify this with him. > > However is there a way to somehow do a group by field on the results? That > field being the application ID? > > Thanks. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:16:12 PM > Subject: Re: TermQuery search returns the same Document several times > > I don't understand your question. From the API docs for > HitCollector.collect: > > <<<Called once for every non-zero scoring document, with > the document number and its score.>>> > > Can you ask your question another way? Because the > only answer I can come up with is > "HitCollector.collect only sees each document once by definition". > > Best > Erick > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Lebiram <lebi...@ymail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible to somehow ensure that a document will be returned only > once > > when collecting from HitCollector? > > > > > > > > > > >
