Index: FieldSortedHitQueue.java
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--- FieldSortedHitQueue.java	(revision 280445)
+++ FieldSortedHitQueue.java	(working copy)
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 /**
  * Expert: A hit queue for sorting by hits by terms in more than one field.
  * Uses <code>FieldCache.DEFAULT</code> for maintaining internal term lookup tables.
+ * Now public to facilitate sorting with the expert query API.
  *
  * <p>Created: Dec 8, 2003 12:56:03 PM
  *
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
  * @see Searcher#search(Query,Filter,int,Sort)
  * @see FieldCache
  */
-class FieldSortedHitQueue
+public class FieldSortedHitQueue
 extends PriorityQueue {
 
   /**
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@
    * @param size  The number of hits to retain.  Must be greater than zero.
    * @throws IOException
    */
-  FieldSortedHitQueue (IndexReader reader, SortField[] fields, int size)
+  public FieldSortedHitQueue (IndexReader reader, SortField[] fields, int size)
   throws IOException {
     final int n = fields.length;
     comparators = new ScoreDocComparator[n];