Comments on: ColdFusion UDF to test if a Java Class implements a method

By: Markus Wollny

Markus Wollny — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:10:28 +0000

You’ll need to sort by relevance (SPH_SORT_RELEVANCE), too – so if you’ve got some other sort mechanism (like SPH_SORT_ATTR_DESC) set, you won’t see any difference.

By: Russ Chinoy

Russ Chinoy — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:55:45 +0000

Hi Markus,

I’ve been using 0.9.9-final and extended search mode (SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED2), but haven’t been able to see any visible differences when using the field weights. I’ll check out your new search component. Hopefully that will provide some guidance!

Thanks,
Russ

By: Markus Wollny

Markus Wollny — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:41:19 +0000

I’ve had some SetWeight-related trouble today, too. I did manage to get the expected result as long as I used the extended search mode only. There are plans to implement the full weighting functionality with other search modes, too, but this has not made it into the current version yet. You might be interested in my new post on Sphinx, maybe you can make some sense of your SetWeight-problem by taking a peek at my search-component.

By: Markus Wollny

Markus Wollny — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:20:05 +0000

Hi Russ,

I haven’t actually tested the field-weight feature to any great extent, but as it so happens I am currently in the process of doing a somewhat longer blog post on how to compile, set up, configure and use Sphinx from ColdFusion. I’ll try and cover the field-weight feature as well there with a couple of examples, maybe there’s some conclusive evidence as to what works and what doesn’t to be had there. By the way, which version of Sphinx do you currently use? 0.9.9-final is current at the moment. I hope to have my blog post online by monday.

Kind regards

Markus

By: Russ Chinoy

Russ Chinoy — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:13:43 +0000

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the great info about how to setup a hashmap for SetFieldWeights in ColdFusion.

I’ve implemented SetFieldWeights in my Sphinx-related code, but am not seeing any difference in the weight values coming back with the search results. Any idea what the problem might be? Do I need to set the field weights for ALL non-attribute index columns (right now I’m just trying to boost the weight for one indexed column)?

Any insight you might have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Russ