[LUCENE-8803] Provide a FieldComparator to allow sorting by a feature from a FeatureField

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.0, 8.2
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Review Patch?: Yes
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Colin Goodheart-Smithe
• Created: 17/May/19 10:54
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:45
• Resolved: 04/Jun/19 07:43

Description

It would be useful to be able to sort search hits by the value of a feature from a feature field (e.g. pagerank). A FieldComparatorSource implementation that enables this would create a convenient generic way to sort using values from feature fields.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #680