Sorry I did not read your email and the first one a lot of people did not understand (I read it now).
Everything is rather simple: It makes no difference between MultiSearcher or IndexSearcher, you can really do everything with both. Just use them as if they are equals (in your declararation just use the abstract Searcher as you have done and assign a MultiSearcher ord IndexSearcher to it). Another possibility is to use only MultiReader on top of the IndexReaders and create an IndexSearcher from this *one* MultiReader (which appears to Lucene as a single index). For the pagination, do it like described before. I modified your code: IndexSearcher searcher = searchers.get(indexName); QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(indexName, analyzer); TopDocs topDocs=null; try { topDocs = searcher.search(parser.parse(query), null, 10); } catch (ParseException e) { } Results results = new Results(); TopDocs topDocs = collector.topDocs(); ScoreDoc docs[] = topDocs.scoreDocs; float maxScore = topDocs.getMaxScore(); for (int i = 0; i < docs.length; i++) { Result result = new Result(); result.score = docs[i].score / maxScore; result.doc = searcher.doc(docs[i].doc); results.results.add(result); } return results; For the pagination just use the following to display results 20 to 29 (10 items): topDocs = searcher.search(parser.parse(query), null, 20+10); ScoreDoc docs[] = topDocs.scoreDocs; float maxScore = topDocs.getMaxScore(); for (int i = 20; i < 30; i++) { result.score = docs[i].score / maxScore; ... All complete, do the search on a single Searcher that contains all indexes (a MultiSearcher(IndexReader(index1),IndexReader(index2),....) or a IndexSearcher(MultiReader(index1,index2...)) and paginate as you want. If you need sorting, just use a Sort/SortField construct and pass it to Searcher.search(). Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > -----Original Message----- > From: Amin Mohammed-Coleman [mailto:ami...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 6:58 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Cc: <java-user@lucene.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Performance tips on searching > > Hi > > I wrote last week about the best way to paginate. I will reply back > with that email if that ok. This isn't my thread and I don't want to > deviate from the original topic. > > > Cheers > > Amin > > On 20 Mar 2009, at 17:50, "Uwe Schindler" <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > > No, the MultiSearcher also exposes all methods, IndexSearcher/Seracher > > exposes (it inherits it from the superclass IndexSearcher). And a > > call to > > the collector is never sortable, because the sorting is done > > *inside* the > > hit collector. > > > > Where is your problem with pagination? Normally you choose n to be > > paginationoffset+count and then display Scoredocs between n .. n > > +count-1. > > There is no TopDocCollector that can only collect results 100 to > > 109. To > > display results 100 to 109, you need to collect all results up to > > 109, so > > call with n=110 and then display scoredoc[100]..scoredoc[109] > > > > This is exactly how the old Hits worked. > > > > ----- > > Uwe Schindler > > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > > http://www.thetaphi.de > > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Amin Mohammed-Coleman [mailto:ami...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 6:43 PM > >> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > >> Cc: <java-user@lucene.apache.org>; <paul_t...@fastmail.fm> > >> Subject: Re: Performance tips on searching > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> How do you expose a pagination without a customized hit collector. > >> The > >> multi searcher does not expose a method for hit collector and sort. > >> Maybe this is not an issue for people ... > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Amin > >> > >> On 20 Mar 2009, at 17:25, "Uwe Schindler" <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > >> > >>> Why not use a MultiSearcher an all single searchers? Or a Searcher > >>> on a > >>> MultiReader consisting of all IndexReaders? With that you do not > >>> need to > >>> merge the results. > >>> > >>> By the way: instead of creating a TopDocCollector, you could also > >>> call > >>> directly, > >>> > >>> Searcher.search(Query query, Filter filter, int n, Sort sort) > >>> Searcher.search(Query query, Filter filter, int n) > >>> > >>> Filter can be null. > >>> > >>> It's shorter and if sorting is also involved, simplier to handle > >>> (you do not > >>> need to switch between ToDocCollector and TopFieldDocCollector). > >>> > >>> Important: With Lucene 2.9, the searches will be faster using this > >>> API > >>> (because then each index segment uses an own collector). > >>> > >>> Uwe > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> Uwe Schindler > >>> H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > >>> http://www.thetaphi.de > >>> eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: Paul Taylor [mailto:paul_t...@fastmail.fm] > >>>> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 6:02 PM > >>>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > >>>> Subject: Performance tips on searching > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Hi, my code receives a search query from the web, there are 5 > >>>> different > >>>> searches that can be searched on - each index is searched with a > >>>> single > >>>> IndexSearcher referenced in a map. it parses then performs the > >>>> search > >>>> and return the best 10 results, with scores readjusted over the > >>>> results > >>>> so that the best score returns 1.0. Am I performing the optiminal > >>>> search > >>>> methods to do what I want ? > >>>> > >>>> thanks Paul > >>>> > >>>> IndexSearcher searcher = searchers.get(indexName); > >>>> QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(indexName, analyzer); > >>>> TopDocCollector collector = new TopDocCollector(10); > >>>> try { > >>>> searcher.search(parser.parse(query), collector); > >>>> } > >>>> catch (ParseException e) { > >>>> } > >>>> Results results = new Results(); > >>>> results.totalHits = collector.getTotalHits(); > >>>> TopDocs topDocs = collector.topDocs(); > >>>> ScoreDoc docs[] = topDocs.scoreDocs; > >>>> float maxScore = topDocs.getMaxScore(); > >>>> for (int i = 0; i < docs.length; i++) { > >>>> Result result = new Result(); > >>>> result.score = docs[i].score / maxScore; > >>>> result.doc = searcher.doc(docs[i].doc); > >>>> results.results.add(result); > >>>> } > >>>> return results; > >>>> > >>>> --- > >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --- > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org