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/**
* Grouping.
* <p>
* This module enables search result grouping with Lucene, where hits
* with the same value in the specified single-valued group field are
* grouped together. For example, if you group by the <code>author</code>
* field, then all documents with the same value in the <code>author</code>
* field fall into a single group.
* </p>
*
* <p>Grouping requires a number of inputs:</p>
*
* <ul>
* <li><code>groupSelector</code>: this defines how groups are created
* from values per-document. The grouping module ships with
* selectors for grouping by term, and by long and double ranges.
*
* <li><code>groupSort</code>: how the groups are sorted. For sorting
* purposes, each group is "represented" by the highest-sorted
* document according to the <code>groupSort</code> within it. For
* example, if you specify "price" (ascending) then the first group
* is the one with the lowest price book within it. Or if you
* specify relevance group sort, then the first group is the one
* containing the highest scoring book.
*
* <li><code>topNGroups</code>: how many top groups to keep. For
* example, 10 means the top 10 groups are computed.
*
* <li><code>groupOffset</code>: which "slice" of top groups you want to
* retrieve. For example, 3 means you'll get 7 groups back
* (assuming <code>topNGroups</code> is 10). This is useful for
* paging, where you might show 5 groups per page.
*
* <li><code>withinGroupSort</code>: how the documents within each group
* are sorted. This can be different from the group sort.
*
* <li><code>maxDocsPerGroup</code>: how many top documents within each
* group to keep.
*
* <li><code>withinGroupOffset</code>: which "slice" of top
* documents you want to retrieve from each group.
*
* </ul>
*
* <p>The implementation is two-pass: the first pass ({@link
* org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.FirstPassGroupingCollector})
* gathers the top groups, and the second pass ({@link
* org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.SecondPassGroupingCollector})
* gathers documents within those groups. If the search is costly to
* run you may want to use the {@link
* org.apache.lucene.search.CachingCollector} class, which
* caches hits and can (quickly) replay them for the second pass. This
* way you only run the query once, but you pay a RAM cost to (briefly)
* hold all hits. Results are returned as a {@link
* org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.TopGroups} instance.</p>
*
* <p>Groups are defined by {@link org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.GroupSelector}
* implementations:</p>
* <ul>
* <li>{@link org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.TermGroupSelector} groups based on
* the value of a {@link org.apache.lucene.index.SortedDocValues} field</li>
* <li>{@link org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.ValueSourceGroupSelector} groups based on
* the value of a {@link org.apache.lucene.queries.function.ValueSource}</li>
* <li>{@link org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.DoubleRangeGroupSelector} groups based on
* the value of a {@link org.apache.lucene.search.DoubleValuesSource}</li>
* <li>{@link org.apache.lucene.search.grouping.LongRangeGroupSelector} groups based on
* the value of a {@link org.apache.lucene.search.LongValuesSource}</li>
* </ul>
*
* <p>Known limitations:</p>
* <ul>
* <li> Sharding is not directly supported, though is not too
* difficult, if you can merge the top groups and top documents per
* group yourself.
* </ul>
*
* <p>Typical usage for the generic two-pass grouping search looks like this using the grouping convenience utility
* (optionally using caching for the second pass search):</p>
*
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* GroupingSearch groupingSearch = new GroupingSearch("author");
* groupingSearch.setGroupSort(groupSort);
* groupingSearch.setFillSortFields(fillFields);
*
* if (useCache) {
* // Sets cache in MB
* groupingSearch.setCachingInMB(4.0, true);
* }
*
* if (requiredTotalGroupCount) {
* groupingSearch.setAllGroups(true);
* }
*
* TermQuery query = new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm));
* TopGroups&lt;BytesRef&gt; result = groupingSearch.search(indexSearcher, query, groupOffset, groupLimit);
*
* // Render groupsResult...
* if (requiredTotalGroupCount) {
* int totalGroupCount = result.totalGroupCount;
* }
* </pre>
*
* <p>To use the single-pass <code>BlockGroupingCollector</code>,
* first, at indexing time, you must ensure all docs in each group
* are added as a block, and you have some way to find the last
* document of each group. One simple way to do this is to add a
* marker binary field:</p>
*
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* // Create Documents from your source:
* List&lt;Document&gt; oneGroup = ...;
*
* Field groupEndField = new Field("groupEnd", "x", Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED);
* groupEndField.setIndexOptions(IndexOptions.DOCS_ONLY);
* groupEndField.setOmitNorms(true);
* oneGroup.get(oneGroup.size()-1).add(groupEndField);
*
* // You can also use writer.updateDocuments(); just be sure you
* // replace an entire previous doc block with this new one. For
* // example, each group could have a "groupID" field, with the same
* // value for all docs in this group:
* writer.addDocuments(oneGroup);
* </pre>
*
* Then, at search time:
*
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* Query groupEndDocs = new TermQuery(new Term("groupEnd", "x"));
* BlockGroupingCollector c = new BlockGroupingCollector(groupSort, groupOffset+topNGroups, needsScores, groupEndDocs);
* s.search(new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm)), c);
* TopGroups groupsResult = c.getTopGroups(withinGroupSort, groupOffset, docOffset, docOffset+docsPerGroup, fillFields);
*
* // Render groupsResult...
* </pre>
*
* Or alternatively use the <code>GroupingSearch</code> convenience utility:
*
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* // Per search:
* GroupingSearch groupingSearch = new GroupingSearch(groupEndDocs);
* groupingSearch.setGroupSort(groupSort);
* groupingSearch.setIncludeScores(needsScores);
* TermQuery query = new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm));
* TopGroups groupsResult = groupingSearch.search(indexSearcher, query, groupOffset, groupLimit);
*
* // Render groupsResult...
* </pre>
*
* Note that the <code>groupValue</code> of each <code>GroupDocs</code>
* will be <code>null</code>, so if you need to present this value you'll
* have to separately retrieve it (for example using stored
* fields, <code>FieldCache</code>, etc.).
*
* <p>Another collector is the <code>AllGroupHeadsCollector</code> that can be used to retrieve all most relevant
* documents per group. Also known as group heads. This can be useful in situations when one wants to compute group
* based facets / statistics on the complete query result. The collector can be executed during the first or second
* phase. This collector can also be used with the <code>GroupingSearch</code> convenience utility, but when if one only
* wants to compute the most relevant documents per group it is better to just use the collector as done here below.</p>
*
* <pre class="prettyprint">
* TermGroupSelector grouper = new TermGroupSelector(groupField);
* AllGroupHeadsCollector c = AllGroupHeadsCollector.newCollector(grouper, sortWithinGroup);
* s.search(new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm)), c);
* // Return all group heads as int array
* int[] groupHeadsArray = c.retrieveGroupHeads()
* // Return all group heads as FixedBitSet.
* int maxDoc = s.maxDoc();
* FixedBitSet groupHeadsBitSet = c.retrieveGroupHeads(maxDoc)
* </pre>
*
*/
package org.apache.lucene.search.grouping;