Lucene exact ordering

Question

I\'ve had this long term issue in not quite understanding how to implement a decent Lucene sort or ranking. Say I have a list of cities and their populations. If someone se

Answer 1

API for

Sortcomparator

says

There is a distinct Comparable for each unique term in the field - if some documents have the same term in the field, the cache array will have entries which reference the same Comparable

You can apply a

FieldSortedHitQueue

to the sortcomparator which has a Comparator field for which the api says ...

Stores a comparator corresponding to each field being sorted by.

Thus the term can be sorted accordingly