Re: How can I limit the number of hits in my query?

2007-05-14 Thread Erick Erickson
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

Re: How can I limit the number of hits in my query?

2007-05-14 Thread David Leangen
Thank you very much for this. Some more questions inline... > > - 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 wh

RE: How can I limit the number of hits in my query?

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce Ritchie
> Ok, you're right. It's not the limiting of the results that's > the problem, it's the way the search is expanded. > > Since this is an autocomplete, when the user types, for > example "a" or a Japanese character "あ", I am using > PrefixFilter for this, so I guess the search turns into "a*" >

Re: How can I limit the number of hits in my query?

2007-05-17 Thread David Leangen
Thank you, Erick, this is very useful! Have you ever taken a look at Google Suggest[1]? It's very fast, and the results are impressive. I think your suggestion will go a long way to fixing my problem, but there's probably still quite a gap between this approach and the kind of results that Google

Re: How can I limit the number of hits in my query?

2007-05-18 Thread Erik Hatcher
On May 17, 2007, at 9:18 PM, David Leangen wrote: Have you ever taken a look at Google Suggest[1]? It's very fast, and the results are impressive. I think your suggestion will go a long way to fixing my problem, but there's probably still quite a gap between this approach and the kind of resul

Re: How can I limit the number of hits in my query?

2007-05-18 Thread David Leangen
Ok, that site is very nice! However... it was really slow for me. Any idea why? Would that be Solr's "fault"? Or just an overloaded server? Just curious... I'm interested in looking further into Solr. Cheers, Dave On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 23:32 -0700, Erik Hatcher wrote: > On May 17, 2007, at