Public List Hits.subList(int, int)

2005-12-31 Thread John Powers
Hello, What does everyone think about adding a subList(int, int) method to the Hits class? In all the lucene implementations I usually end up needing a small section for pagination of the results. So I go from X to Y and put them in a List and return the List of Documents. Since I seem to al

Problems with sandbox - can't find org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput

2005-12-31 Thread Colin Young
I'm attempting to compile Lucene with some sandbox code -- specifically the Berkely DB index storage -- and I'm running into and issue where the code is attempting to import IndexInput (apparently located in org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput) but I can't find it in the source anywhere. I'm not sur

Re: Query Scoring

2005-12-31 Thread markharw00d
Sorry to contradict, Erik, but the Highlighter's QueryScorer will make use of IDF, given a reader, in order to better prioritise which are the "best" bits of a document. However, In the particular example given, the criteria includes several non-text fields which are not useful for IDF and gener

Re: Query Scoring

2005-12-31 Thread Erik Hatcher
Harini, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. IDF doesn't factor into highlighting. IDF calculations are useful in scoring documents during a search, such that the most relevant documents are returned, but again this is unrelated to highlighting. Could you elaborate on what you