On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : It appears that adding sort functions would be done in Lucene, and not > > : in solr. I'm not sure I want to go down that path, so I'm wondering > : if there's a way to accomplish this with solr. From recent > : discussions, it sounds like I might be able to do this with some boost > : magic. Unfortunately, I haven't found any examples of boosting that > : seem close to what I want to do. > > I can't think of anyway to accomplish anything like this without writing > some custom Java code in Solr ... either some custom ValueSources to use > in FunctionQuery, or a custom Sort object. >
the custom Sort object seems a bit more direct. I'm not very familiar with the solr source. Can you give me some idea of how to get started -- maybe this is now a better discussion for solr-dev . . . -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss
