Lucene search priorities

2006-10-29 Thread Amit Soni
Hi list. I am using lucene search for one of my site search. In which i am fetching values from the database and then index it. The fields which the docuement contains is: 1. hwid 2. title 3. author 4. keywords 5. synonyms Now i want the search result should be as per the following priorities

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-30 Thread Erick Erickson
I think what you want is IndexSearcher.search(Query, Filter, Sort). Filter may be null, and Sort is a Sort object that allows you to sort on multiple fields at once, which I assume is what you mane by "priorities". Read the cautions about memory usage for a Sort object though. Best Erick On 10/

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-30 Thread Amit Soni
Hi Erick, Thanks for the reply. Actually the priorities mean when i search for example for cancer then in the result if get the result in order like 1. it appears in title 2. it appears in keywords 3. it appears in synonyms. But right now with the default implementation when i search for quer

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-30 Thread Patrick Turcotte
I don't remember the syntax right now, but how about giving a boost to certain fields, either while indexing or while searching ? Patrick On 10/30/06, Amit Soni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Erick, Thanks for the reply. Actually the priorities mean when i search for example for cancer then i

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-30 Thread Bhavin Pandya
Hi amit, You can give boost to query at search time... and you can boost to perticular field at index time - Bhavin pandya - Original Message - From: "Patrick Turcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:38 PM Subj

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-30 Thread Amit Soni
, You can give boost to query at search time... and you can boost to perticular field at index time - Bhavin pandya - Original Message - From: "Patrick Turcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Lu

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-31 Thread Erick Erickson
> and you can boost to perticular field at index time > > - Bhavin pandya > > - Original Message - From: "Patrick Turcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:38 PM > Subject: Re: Lucene search

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-31 Thread Frode Bjerkholt
se this time. Do i > > have to give boost and index and search both or either index or search? > > Also can you give some docs which has something on how to use boost on > > particular fields. > > > > Thanks, > > Amit Soni > > > > Bhavin Pandya wrote: >

Re: Lucene search priorities

2006-10-31 Thread Doron Cohen
"Erick Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/10/2006 05:03:18: > I don't remember who wrote this, Chris or Yonik or Otis, but here's the word > from somebody who actually knows... > > index time field boosts are away to express things like "this document title > is worth twice as much as the ti