On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Blargy <zman...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Can someone explain a useful case for the RandomSortField?
People sometimes have requirements to show different results to everyone (essentially randomly shuffling matches per person). -Yonik Apache Lucene Eurocon 2010 18-21 May 2010 | Prague > <!-- The "RandomSortField" is not used to store or search any > data. You can declare fields of this type it in your schema > to generate pseudo-random orderings of your docs for sorting > purposes. The ordering is generated based on the field name > and the version of the index, As long as the index version > remains unchanged, and the same field name is reused, > the ordering of the docs will be consistent. > If you want different psuedo-random orderings of documents, > for the same version of the index, use a dynamicField and > change the name > --> > <fieldType name="random" class="solr.RandomSortField" indexed="true" />
