Hi Shivaraj, I would recommend John's approach and let Lucene deal with the sorting.
Nonetheless, you can traverse through the terms by using the following method: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#terms(org.apache.lucene.index.Term) Basically, you should pass in a term with your price field name and an empty string for the value. You would traverse the enumeration until you hit a Term with a different field name. You can get the documents with the term by using: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.html#termDocs(org.apache.lucene.index.Term) Hope that helps. Khawaja On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Shivaraj Tenginakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks John, > > MatchAllDocsQuery works, however I was unable to locate an example for > traversing the term table. Could you please point me to one? > > Regards, > > Shivaraj > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:35 AM, John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The obvious way is to use use MatchAllDocsQuery with Sort parameters on > the > > searcher, e.g. > > > > searcher.search(new MatchAllDocsQuery(),sort); > > > > If you only care about 1 sort spec (e.g. no secondary sort to break ties) > > it > > may be faster just traversing the term table since that is already > sorted. > > > > -John > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Shivaraj Tenginakai < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >wrote: > > > > > I have a usecase in which I have no search query, but still need to > sort > > > documents. For example, items need to be sorted by price, though the > user > > > has not yet selected any search criteria. > > > > > > What would be the best way to achieve this? > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > > > > > Shivaraj > > > > > >
