If it's just a random ordering you are looking for, it's implemented in the latest Solr 1.3 Solr 1.3 should be out soon, so if you are just starting development, I'd start with the latest Solr version.
If you really need to stick with 1.2 (even after 1.3 is out?) then RandomSortField should be easy to backport to 1.2 -Yonik On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Sean Laval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > 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 >> >> >
