Re: Sorting documents without a query

2008-12-06 Thread Khawaja Shams
Hi Shivaraj, I would recommend John's approach and let Lucene deal with the sorting. Nonetheless, you can traverse through the terms by using the following method: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#terms(org.apache.lucene.index.Term) Basically, yo

Re: Sorting documents without a query

2008-12-06 Thread Shivaraj Tenginakai
Thanks John, MatchAllDocsQuery works, however I was unable to locate an example for traversing the term table. Could you please point me to one? Regards, Shivaraj On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:35 AM, John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The obvious way is to use use MatchAllDocsQuery with Sort

Re: Sorting documents without a query

2008-12-05 Thread John Wang
The obvious way is to use use MatchAllDocsQuery with Sort parameters on the searcher, e.g. searcher.search(new MatchAllDocsQuery(),sort); If you only care about 1 sort spec (e.g. no secondary sort to break ties) it may be faster just traversing the term table since that is already sorted. -John