org.apache.lucene.search
Class Similarity

java.lang.Object
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public final class Similarity

extends Object

Internal class used for scoring.

Public only so that the indexing code can compute and store the normalization byte for each document.

Method Summary

static byte

norm(int numTerms) Computes the normalization byte for a document given the total number of terms contained in the document.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

norm

public static final byte norm(int numTerms)

Computes the normalization byte for a document given the total number of terms contained in the document. These values are stored in an index and used by the search code.