svn commit: r1021360 - /lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java

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Author: gsingers
Date: Mon Oct 11 14:45:11 2010
New Revision: 1021360

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1021360&view=rev
Log:
add search method that allows Sort, but doesn't require a Filter

Modified:
    lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java

Modified: lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java?rev=1021360&r1=1021359&r2=1021360&view=diff
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--- lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java (original)
+++ lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Searcher.java Mon Oct 11 14:45:11 2010
@@ -49,6 +49,19 @@ public abstract class Searcher implement
     return search(createWeight(query), filter, n, sort);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Search implementation with arbitrary sorting and no filter.
+   * @param query The query to search for
+   * @param n Return only the top n results
+   * @param sort The {@link org.apache.lucene.search.Sort} object
+   * @return The top docs, sorted according to the supplied {@link org.apache.lucene.search.Sort} instance
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public TopFieldDocs search(Query query, int n,
+                             Sort sort) throws IOException {
+    return search(createWeight(query), null, n, sort);
+  }
+
   /** Lower-level search API.
   *
   * <p>{@link Collector#collect(int)} is called for every matching document.