Why do you want random hits? If we know more about the bigger problem, we can probably make better suggestions.
Fundamentally, Lucene is designed to quickly return the best hits for a query. Returning random hits from the entire matched set is likely to be very slow. It just isn't what Lucene is designed to do. wunder On 7/7/08 8:58 AM, "Sean Laval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen various posts about implementing random sorting relating to the > 1.3 code base but I am trying to do this in 1.2. Does anyone have any > suggestions? The approach I have considered is to implement my own request > handler that picks random documents from a larger result list. I therefore > need to be able to create a DocList and add documents to it but can't seem to > do this. Does anyone have any advice they could offer please? > > Regards, > > Sean
