Have you considered specifying a boost function in your handler instead? See: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DisMaxQParserPlugin#bf_.28Boost_Functions.29
Best Erick On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Zac Smith <z...@trinkit.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think this is a pretty common requirement so hoping someone can easily > point out the solution: > > I have an average rating field defined in my schema that is a tdouble and can > be anything from 0 - 5 (including decimals). I am using dismax so I want to > define a boost based on the average rating. So the higher the number, the > more it gets boosted. I am not sure how to specify the boost in my request > handler. The examples I have found show something like this: > <str name="bq"> > rating:1^1.0 rating:2^2.0 rating:3^3.0 rating:4^4.0 rating:5^5.0 > </str> > > But that seems to assume I would be using whole numbers. I need my rating to > take into account decimal values as well. > > Any pointers?
