update, I tried changing to datatype string, and it sorts the numerics
better, but the other sorts are not as good.
Is there a way to control sorting for special chars, for example, I
want blanks to sort after letters and numbers.
using alphaOnlySort - sorts nicely for alpha, but numbers dont work
string - sorts nicely for numbers and letters, but special chars like
blanks show up first in the list
thanks
Joel
On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Joel Nylund wrote:
I have a field:
<field name="title" type="alphaOnlySort" indexed="true"
stored="true" required="false"/>
<fieldType name="alphaOnlySort" class="solr.TextField"
sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true">
<analyzer>
<!-- KeywordTokenizer does no actual tokenizing, so the entire
input string is preserved as a single token
-->
<tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
<!-- The LowerCase TokenFilter does what you expect, which
can be
when you want your sorting to be case insensitive
-->
<filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />
<!-- The TrimFilter removes any leading or trailing
whitespace -->
<filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory" />
<!-- The PatternReplaceFilter gives you the flexibility to use
Java Regular expression to replace any sequence of
characters
matching a pattern with an arbitrary replacement string,
which may include back references to portions of the
original
string matched by the pattern.
See the Java Regular Expression documentation for more
information on pattern and replacement string syntax.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/package-summary.html
-->
<filter class="solr.PatternReplaceFilterFactory"
pattern="([^a-z])" replacement="" replace="all"
/>
</analyzer>
</fieldType>
When I sort it using titles that are alphanumeric it works great,
but if the titles start with numbers, it almost seems random. Any
suggestions?
thanks
Joel
