Why do we use BitSet class ?

[Vikas Khengare <Vi...@symantec.com>]

Hi Friends........
 
    I am very New to Lucene World !!! As this world is interesting to me
So I want to go in deep level of it to realize the beauty of it.
So can you help me to realize that beauty ?
 
    I have question 
 
1] Why do use BitSet Class ?
2] Is it required in Filtering / Sorting of results or to Index ?
3] What do you means by Inverted Index ?
4] Can we give limit to no. of hits returned by Searcher.
 
Thanks.
 
Best Regards
[ vikas_khengare@symantec.com ]

Re: Why do we use BitSet class ?

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: 1] Why do use BitSet Class ?
: 2] Is it required in Filtering / Sorting of results or to Index ?

BitSet is a usefull class for lots of things.  the only time (that i know
of) where it is part of the public lucene API is in the interaction
between a Filter and the IndexSearcher ... so unless you are writting your
own Filters, no it's not required that you use a BitSet.

: 3] What do you means by Inverted Index ?

That's a pretty broad question... start with googling for the expression
and see if the info you find helps you understand the concept.

: 4] Can we give limit to no. of hits returned by Searcher.

Searchers score documents in doc id order ... so you don't really want a
way to limit the searcher.  what you want is a way to only get the first N
results once hte searcher has scored them all and ordered them by score.
doesn't that is just a matter of stopping at N when you iterate over a
Hits object.


-Hoss


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Re: Why do we use BitSet class ?

[Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

Please do not cross-post your questions.  Your questions are best  
asked solely to java-user.

	Erik


On Jan 30, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Vikas Khengare wrote:

> Hi Friends........
>
>     I am very New to Lucene World !!! As this world is interesting  
> to me
> So I want to go in deep level of it to realize the beauty of it.
> So can you help me to realize that beauty ?
>
>     I have question
>
> 1] Why do use BitSet Class ?
> 2] Is it required in Filtering / Sorting of results or to Index ?
> 3] What do you means by Inverted Index ?
> 4] Can we give limit to no. of hits returned by Searcher.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best Regards
> [ vikas_khengare@symantec.com ]


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