Sorting documents in lucene

Lucene doesn't seem to sort documents anymore. You can try the Web_search page with a sample database. I will send a sample database to you via skype.

fixed in rev 1b2e4c7dab85.  But sorting user_when_created still won't work because it is stored as a long.  You need to store it as an unanalyzed string.  Then you can sort that string as a long.  Not intuitive, I realize.  I guess we will need to write a Lucene tutorial.

fschmidt wrote

But sorting user_when_created still won't work because it is stored as a long.

Are you sure about that? It is working fine for me. You can try these queries in the Web_search page:

sort{{field='user_when_created', type='long'}}
sort{{field='user_when_created', type='long', reverse=true}}

Yes it works.  I had a typo.

Okay, thanks. Closing thread.