: Can you get the boost of an indexed document? Am I missing something : basic? Is the stored document boost lost once it is indexed?
Bingo. In Lucene, Document boosts aren't stored in the docs for later recovered - the getBoost method is meaningless from a Document returned by a search (or retrieved from an IndexReader) Background on my bitterness about this... http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--jira--Commented%3A-%28LUCENE-778%29-Allow-overriding-a-Document-p8418224.html Boosts are folded into the fieldNorm - doc boosts are folded into the fieldNorm of every field the doc has (that doesn't have OMIT_NORMS used) -Hoss
