Exposing API for scoring

Hi,

I'm experimenting with a few different scoring
implementations and I
was wondering what the easiest way would be to incorporate a
new
scorer into a searcher implementation.

>From reading the docs on Scoring at:
http://lucene.apache.org/ja
va/2_2_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/package-summary.html
it seems that the path of least resistance would be to
create an
entire new hierarchy of class.

1. A new Query class to extend TermQuery with an
appropriate
implementation of TermWeight,
2. A new Scorer class to extend TermScorer with the
appropriate Scorer
implementation, and;
3. A new Similarity class which would provide the
appropriate
Similarity implementations.

Given a new Query class I was at a loss when it came to
instantiation.
Would something like the following work -- i.e. is it
sufficient to
replace the top-level Query object, or would I need an
implementation
of a QueryParser that returns instances of the derived Query
type.

<pre>
    Query query = QueryParser.parse(queryString);
    ScopedQuery sq = new ScopedQuery(query);
    ScopedSimilarity ss = new ScopedSimilarity();

    Searcher searcher = new
IndexSearcher("path/to/index");
    searcher.setSimilarity(ss);
    HitCollector hc = searcher.search(sq);
</pre>

With the following in ScopedQuery.ScopedWeight

<pre>
createScorer(IndexReader reader)
{
  ...

   return new ScopedScorer(this, termDocs, similarity,
reader.norms(term.field());
}
</pre>

I'm hoping that I won't need to implement a new Query
parser.

Thanks,
  - Shailesh

PS: Perhaps a useful API call would be
Searcher.setScorer(Scorer s),
similar to the Searcher.setSimilarity call

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