I needed to perform a non-standard search in Lucene, basically a search that allowed me to order by something other than relevance - why? well, because the Boss wanted me to!
So, first of all, if you've been using Seekafile, you'll need to be aware that "out of the box", it comes with version 1.4 of Lucene. Verion 1.4 does not have the overloaded search method you need to supply a search to Lucene.
Firstly then, download the latest version of Lucene, which can be accessed by going the long way round of visiting the old www.dotlucene.net website, and then following the links to version 2.0 or greater. You will then be able to download a newer version of Lucene.
You will find then, that the search() method of the IndexSearcher will then expect a sort of some description. If you run search(query, Sort.RELEVANCE) that will perform a search the same as in old version 1.4 days. However, if you do a search such as search(query, new Sort("Fullname")) this will perform an alphabetic search on the fullname field!
There are loads more options, you can do other than just that - check out the Sort.cs class for options.
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