File	Doc	Category	Size	Date	Package
ScoreDocComparator.java	API Doc	Apache Lucene 2.2.0	3321	Sat Jun 16 22:20:34 BST 2007	org.apache.lucene.search

ScoreDocComparator

Fields Summary
static final ScoreDocComparator	RELEVANCE Special comparator for sorting hits according to computed relevance (document score).
static final ScoreDocComparator	INDEXORDER Special comparator for sorting hits according to index order (document number).

Constructors Summary

Methods Summary
public int	compare(org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc i, org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc j) Compares two ScoreDoc objects and returns a result indicating their sort order. param i First ScoreDoc param j Second ScoreDoc return a negative integer if i should come before j a positive integer if i should come after j 0 if they are equal see java.util.Comparator
public int	sortType() Returns the type of sort. Should return SortField.SCORE, SortField.DOC, SortField.STRING, SortField.INTEGER, SortField.FLOAT or SortField.CUSTOM. It is not valid to return SortField.AUTO. This is used by multisearchers to determine how to collate results from their searchers. return One of the constants in SortField. see SortField
public java.lang.Comparable	sortValue(org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc i) Returns the value used to sort the given document. The object returned must implement the java.io.Serializable interface. This is used by multisearchers to determine how to collate results from their searchers. see FieldDoc param i Document return Serializable object