coord() and queryNorm() work on the query as a whole, which may span
multiple fields.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Joel Barry <jmb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a question on PerFieldSimilarityWrapper. It seems that it is
> not possible to get per-field behavior on queryNorm() and coord()...
>
> The documentation for PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper (lucene 4.0) says:
>
> Subclasses should implement get(String) to return an appropriate
> Similarity (for example, using field-specific parameter values) for
> the field.
>
> This leads the user to believe that *only* get() needs to be
> overridden. However, I've found that I must override queryNorm() as
> well, otherwise Similarity.queryNorm() will be called (because
> PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper extends Similarity), not the user-supplied
> version.
>
> The test cases in lucene seem always to override queryNorm() and
> (coord() too), but I don't see tests for the per-field behavior of
> these. Indeed, there seems to be no way to get the field name from
> these methods. And that's the problem. I'd like to have per-field
> behavior for queryNorm() and coord().
>
> Below is some code to illustrate the issue:
>
> class MyPerFieldSimilarity1 extends PerFieldSimilarityWrapper {
> @Override
> public Similarity get(String name) {
> return new DefaultSimilarity();
> }
> }
>
> class MyPerFieldSimilarity2 extends PerFieldSimilarityWrapper {
> @Override
> public Similarity get(String name) {
> return new DefaultSimilarity();
> }
>
> @Override
> public float queryNorm(float valueForNormalization) {
> // Notice that I don't have access to the read field name here...
> return get("dummy").queryNorm(valueForNormalization);
> }
> }
>
> public class PerFieldSimilarityWrapperTest {
> private float runTest(Similarity similarity) throws IOException {
> IndexWriterConfig config = new
> IndexWriterConfig(Version.LUCENE_40, new
> WhitespaceAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_40));
> config.setSimilarity(similarity);
> Directory dir = new RAMDirectory();
> IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(dir, config);
> Document doc = new Document();
> String fieldName = "some_field";
> doc.add(new TextField(fieldName, "some text", Store.YES));
> writer.addDocument(doc);
> writer.commit();
>
> IndexReader reader = DirectoryReader.open(dir);
> IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(reader);
> searcher.setSimilarity(similarity);
> TermQuery query = new TermQuery(new Term(fieldName, "text"));
> TopDocs topDocs = searcher.search(query, 1);
> float score = topDocs.scoreDocs[0].score;
> return score;
> }
>
> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
> PerFieldSimilarityWrapperTest that = new
> PerFieldSimilarityWrapperTest();
> System.out.println(that.runTest(new DefaultSimilarity()));
> System.out.println(that.runTest(new MyPerFieldSimilarity1()));
> System.out.println(that.runTest(new MyPerFieldSimilarity2()));
> }
> }
>
> Running this produces:
>
> 0.19178301
> 0.058849156
> 0.19178301
>
> Am I overlooking something here or is this a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> - Joel
>
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