SortField Fields

The fields of the SortField class are listed below. For a complete list of SortField class members, see the SortField Members topic.

AUTO	Guess type of sort based on Field contents. A regular expression is used to look at the first term indexed for the Field and determine if it represents an integer number, a floating point number, or just arbitrary string characters.
CUSTOM	Sort using a custom Comparator. Sort values are any Comparable and sorting is done according to natural order.
DOC	Sort by document number (index order). Sort values are Integer and lower values are at the front.
FIELD_DOC	Represents sorting by document number (index order).
FIELD_SCORE	Represents sorting by document score (relevancy).
FLOAT	Sort using term values as encoded Floats. Sort values are Float and lower values are at the front.
INT	Sort using term values as encoded Integers. Sort values are Integer and lower values are at the front.
SCORE	Sort by document score (relevancy). Sort values are Float and higher values are at the front.
STRING	Sort using term values as Strings. Sort values are String and lower values are at the front.