On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 30, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Prasanna R wrote: > > > All documents matched for Wildcard and Prefix queries get the same score > as > > they are scored as a ConstantScoreQuery. Example query - title:abc* > > > > In such cases, what determines the ordering of the results? Is it simply > the > > same order in which those document terms appeared when enumerating > through > > the terms of the field matched in the index? > > I'm assuming they are just in order of internal Lucene doc id, but I'd have > to look for sure. There was also some changes to Lucene that allowed the > collectors to take docs out of order, but again, I'd have to check to see if > that is the case. > > > > > Also, would it be possible to specify criteria determining the ordering > of > > such matches? I am assuming that should be possible but have little idea > how > > that could be done. Kindly provide guidance/help. > > Sort? > > What problem are you trying to solve? > > I am using a prefix query to match a bunch of documents and would like to specify an ordering for the documents matched for that prefix query This is part of the work I am doing in implementing an autocomplete feature and I am using the dismax query parser with some custom modifications. I assume you mean that I can apply a sort ordering to the prefix query matches as part of the results handler. I was not aware of the same. Will look into that. Thanks a lot for the help. Regards, Prasanna.
