: TrieRange fields is needed), I again thought about the issue. Maybe we could : change FieldCache to only put the very first term from a field of the : document into the cache, enabling sorting against this field. If possible, : this would be very nice and in my opinion better that the idea proposed in : the issue.
in the fairly common case of tokenized fields, the "first" term found during enumeration isn't neccessarily (or even frequently) the "first" term in the pre-tokenized string ... so this doesn't help people very much. the recommended solution in the tokenized case is to have a "duplicate" non tokenized field -- that seems like the best solution in the non-tokenized case as well (where the caller is conciously choosing to add multiple Field instances with the same fieldName to a a Document)... pick which Field Value represents the value you want used during sorting, and add that value to the documetning using an alternate fieldName. I've never encountered any serious objecting to this approach. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
