Well its simply a business requirement from my perspective. I am not sure I
can say more than that. I could maybe implement a request handler that did
an initial search to work out how many hits there are resulting from the
query and then did as many more queries as were required fetching just 1
document starting at a given random number .. would that work? Sounds a bit
cludgy to me even as I say it.
Sean
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From: "Walter Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:06 PM
To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org>
Subject: Re: implementing a random result request handler - solr 1.2
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
