What sort of ranges are you trying to use? Maybe you could store a separate field, just for these queries, with some normalized form of the ids, with all numbers padded out to the same length etc.
-- Ian. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman <ami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Unfortunately my range query approach did not work. It seems to be related > to the ids themselves. The list has ids that look this: > > > ID-NYC-1234 > ID-LND-1234 > TX-NYC-1334 > TX-NYC-BBC-123 > > The ids may range from 90 to 1000. Is there another approach I could take? > I tried building a string with all the ids and set them against a field for > example: > > dataId: ID-NYC-123 dataId: ID-NYC-1234.... > > but that's not a great approach I know... > > any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Amin > > > > On 26 Nov 2010, at 14:39, Ian Lea wrote: > >> Absolutely, as long as your ids will sort as you expect. >> >> I'm not clear what you mean by XDF-123 but if you've got >> >> AAA-123 >> AAA-124 >> ... >> ABC-123 >> ABC-234 >> etc. >> >> then you'll be fine. If they don't sort so neatly you can use the >> TermRangeQuery constructor that takes a Collator but note the >> performance warning in the javadocs. >> >> >> -- >> Ian. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman <ami...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi All >>> >>> I was wondering whether I can use TermRangeQuery for my use case. I have a >>> collection of ids (represented as XDF-123) and I would like to do a search >>> for all the ids (might be in the range of 10000) and for each matching id I >>> want to get the corresponding data that is stored in the index (for example >>> the document contains id and string value). I am using a custom collector >>> to collect that string value for each match. Is it ok to use a >>> TermRangeQuery for the ids rather than creating a massive query string? >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> Amin >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
