: I need to sort by one of my date fields or the external rank. The first is : easy. The second is difficult so I will have to query the external system : for all matching docs - but if its on the reduced set its manageable.
I would actually approach this with two seperate code paths then ... in the sort by date case, iterate over a DocList (and grow as needed) and stop whne you have enough. in the case where you sort by your external rank and you know you need to iterate over everything, just iterate over a DocSet (since the iteration order is irrelevant) : One Remaining Question: I'd like to include my external threshold value int : he document. Any ideas? Can I stuff a float field somewhere on the docs? It's not easy or well documented, and even I don't know how to do it, but Ryan pointed out in a recent thread about ExternalFileFields that it is possible -- and the LocalSolr code shows an example of it. -Hoss
