Re: Advice on Custom Sorting

2006-09-26 Thread Paul Lynch
Thanks again Erick for taking the time. I agree that the CachingWrapperFilter as described under "using a custom filter" in LIA is probably my best bet. I wanted to check if anything had been added in Lucene releases since the book was written I wasn't aware of. Cheers again. --- Erick Erickson

Re: Advice on Custom Sorting

2006-09-25 Thread Erick Erickson
You were probably right. See below On 9/25/06, Paul Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the quick response Erick. "index the documents in your preferred list with a field and index your non-preferred docs with a field subid?" I considered this approach and dismissed it due to the

Re: Advice on Custom Sorting

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Lynch
Thanks for the quick response Erick. "index the documents in your preferred list with a field and index your non-preferred docs with a field subid?" I considered this approach and dismissed it due to the actual list of preferred ids changing so frequently (every 10 mins...ish) but maybe I was a

Re: Advice on Custom Sorting

2006-09-25 Thread Erick Erickson
OK, a really "off the top of my head" response, but what the heck I'm not sure you need to worry about filters. Would it work for you to index the documents in your preferred list with a field (called, at the limit of my creativity, preferredsubid ) and index your non-preferred docs with a f