There was a similar question asked a couple of months ago, with a great answer by Uwe Schindler:
http://search-lucene.com/m/Z2GP220szmS&subj=RE+What+is+equivalent+to+Document+setBoost+from+Lucene+3+6+inLucene+4+1+ I am still on Lucene 3.x, so I have not yet had a chance to mimic document level boosts in 4.x. Cheers, Ivan On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Tamer Gür <t...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > we are migrating from 3.6 to 4.2. since Document.setBoost() method removed > we are trying to reimplement. > > Currently we are using Document.setBoost() method as a scalar boost factor > across our multiple different indexes. > > With the lucene 4.2 setting this factor by field.setBoost() is not > feasible for us since we have many indexes and complex fields. > > So what is possible drawback if i override DefaultSimilarity and put back > the Document.setBoost() during norm calculation? > or is there any other way to add a scalar factor to all document? > > Thank you. > Tamer > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > java-user-unsubscribe@lucene.**apache.org<java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > java-user-help@lucene.apache.**org<java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org> > >