See below On 5/14/07, David Leangen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello! I am new to Lucene, so forgive me if my question is basic. I did try googling for an answer... For an ajax autocomplete widget, I am querying using Lucene. I only want to return, for example, the first 20 hits of anything that Lucene finds in whatever order Lucene gives to me. Two questions: - How can I limit the number of hits? I don't know in advance what the data will be, so it's not feasible for me to use RangeQuery.
You can use a TopDocs or a HitCollector object which allows you to process each object as it's hit. But I doubt you need to do this. Under the covers, a Hits object actually stops at about 100 documents and re-executes the query to fetch the next 100 etc. So, I really doubt you'll have any noticeable difference in either performance or resource usage by getting fancy. One of the design goals of the Hits object was exactly to incur the least expense while getting the top 100 docs.... - Will this solve the problem I am getting with maxClauseCount?
org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery$TooManyClauses maxClauseCount is set to 1024
No. I expect you're using a wildcard, and wildcard handling is complicated. Search the mail archive at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/ for TooManyClauses and you'll find a wealth of information about why/how this happens and what to do to avoid it. Also, see http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ where this is one of th questions.... Best Erick Thank you!
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