On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Blargy <zman...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Can someone explain what the createWeight methods should do?
Its primary function is to add Searcher context to anything that needs it (such as weighting a query). If you're not dealing with relevancy-type queries, value sources should just delegate to any sub-valuesources. > And one someone mind explaining what the hashCode method is doing in this > use case? > > public int hashCode() { > int h = a.hashCode(); > h ^= (h << 13) | (h >>> 20); > h += b.hashCode(); > h ^= (h << 23) | (h >>> 10); > h += name().hashCode(); > return h; > } It's mixing hash codes from different components. The particular shift numbers make the transform reversible (i.e. no information/entropy is lost). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com