Thanks Hoss! The approach that I explained in my subsequent email works like a charm.
Cheers Avlesh On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>wrote: > > : The question was either non-trivial or heavily uninteresting! No replies > yet > > it's pretty non-trivial, and pretty interesting, but i'm also pretty > behind on my solr-user email. > > I don't think there's anyway to do what you wanted without a custom > plugin, so your efforts weren't in vain ... if we add the abiliity to sort > by a ValueSource (aka function ... there's a Jira issue for this > somewhere) then you could also do witha combination of functions so that > anything in your category gets flattened to an extremely high constant, > and everything else has a real score -- then a secondary sort on a random > field would effectively only randomize the things in your category ... but > we're not there yet. > > : Hoss, I have a small question (RandomSortField bears your signature) - > Any > : reason as to why RandomSortField#hash() and RandomSortField#getSeed() > : methods are private? Having them public would have saved myself from > : "owning" a copy in my class as well. > > just a general principle of API future-proofing: keep internals private > unless you explicitly think through how subclasses will use them. > > I haven't thought it through all the way, but do you really need to copy > everything? couldn't you get the SortField/Comparator from super and > only delegate to it if the categories both match your specific categoryId? > > > > -Hoss > >
