Hello, I'd like to ask if anybody has any thoughts on the best strategy to use when implementing a paging scenario in a Lucene search.
In order to implement my paging list before the view is rendered I need to know the total number of documents this particular search would return but I still need to only load the documents of the specific page that has been requested. I'm thinking of using the search variant of : *TopFieldDocs search(Query query, Filter filter, int n,Sort sort);* since I need sorting and filtering and passing indeaxReader.maxDoc() for n. Will that create an array of size indeaxReader.maxDoc() ? After the search is finished I can retrieve only the documents I'm interested by using the sub-list of TopFieldDocs I've worked out. In the HitCollector docs : http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_1/api/org/apache/lucene/search/HitCollector.html I can see a way to use a BitSet but I'm not quite sure how this can be used to retrieve documents. Any alternatives/better ideas? thanks, Savvas
