Paginating Lucene Search Results

Use IndexSearcher.searchAfter

/**
 * useSearcherAfter, need client record the returned last ScoreDoc
 * lastBottom, and pass it in next round.
 */
private void useSearcherAfter(DirectoryReader indexReader,
    IndexSearcher searcher, int pageSize) throws IOException {
  Query query = new TermQuery(new Term("title", "java"));
  // query = new MatchAllDocsQuery();
  ScoreDoc lastBottom = null;
  while (true) {
    TopDocs paged = null;
    paged = searcher.searchAfter(lastBottom, query, null, pageSize);
    if (paged.scoreDocs.length == 0) {
      // no more data, break;
      break;
    }
    ScoreDoc[] scoreDocs = paged.scoreDocs;
    for (ScoreDoc scoreDoc : scoreDocs) {
      Utils.printDoc(searcher.doc(scoreDoc.doc), "id", "title");
    }

    lastBottom = paged.scoreDocs[paged.scoreDocs.length - 1];
  }
}

Skip Previous Docs
Not good at performance and memory usage.

private void skipPreviousRows(DirectoryReader indexReader,
    IndexSearcher searcher, int pageStart, int pageSize)
    throws IOException {
  Query query = new TermQuery(new Term("title", "java"));
  int pageEnd = pageStart - 1 + pageSize;
  TopDocs hits = searcher.search(query, pageEnd);

  for (int i = pageStart - 1; i < pageEnd; i++) {
    int docId = hits.scoreDocs[i].doc;

    // load the document
    Document doc = searcher.doc(docId);
    Utils.printDocAndExplain(doc, searcher, query, docId, "id", "title");
  }
}

In Solr4.7, we can do deep paging with cursorMark
Solr Deep Pagination Problem Fixed in Solr-5463
Sorting, Paging, and Deep Paging in Solr
http://solr1:8080/solr/select?q=accesstime:[* TO NOW-5YEAR/DAY]&sort=accesstime desc, contentid asc&sort=accesstime desc,id asc&rows=1000&start=0&cursorMark=*

http://solr1:8080/solr/select?q=accesstime:[* TO NOW-5YEAR/DAY]&sort=accesstime desc, contentid asc&sort=accesstime desc,id asc&rows=1000&start=0&cursorMark=AoJ42tmu%2FZ4CKTQxMDMyMzEwMw%3D%3D