Thanks a lot! Robert
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:34 PM, david.w.smi...@gmail.com < david.w.smi...@gmail.com> wrote: > ValueSourceParser — yes. You’ll find a ton of them in Solr to get ideas > from. > > In your example you forgot the “asc” or “desc”. > > ~ David Smiley > Freelance Apache Lucene/Solr Search Consultant/Developer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Robert Krüger <krue...@lesspain.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have been looking around on the web for information on sorting by a > > custom function but the results are inconclusive to me and some of it > seems > > so old that I suspect it's outdated. What I want to do is the following: > > > > I have a field "fingerprint" in my schema that contains a binary data > (e.g. > > 64 bytes) that can be used to compute a distance/similarity between two > > records. > > > > Now I want to be able to execute a query and sort its result by the > > distance of the matching records from a given reference value, so the > query > > would look something like this > > > > q=*:*&sort=my_distance_func(fingerprint, 0xadet54786eguizgig) > > > > where > > > > my_distance_func is my custom function > > fingerprint is the field in my schema (type binary) > > 0xadet54786eguizgig is a reference value (byte array encoded in whatever > > way) to which the distance shall be computed, which differs with each > > query. > > > > Is ValueSourceParser the right way to look here? Is there a source code > > example someone can point me to? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Robert > > >
