Hi Everyone,

I have a lucene index were I add a document with a set of metadata. In my
system, all the fields in the metadata set needn't be there all the time for
a given document.

Say if I am expecting a metadata set like
        Field1:{yes|no}
        [Field2:{val_1[,val_2]... }]
        Field3:val_X


Here the Field2 is the one that I am having trouble with.

Currently when I get a document with a bunch of Field:Value metadata, I run
them in a loop and create Field object relying on the metadata input. That
way the data source decides the number of fields attached to a particular
document. Fields like Field2 will be left out if it didn't appear in the
input.

So if I get a document like 

        Field1:yes
        Field3:val_X
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        DATA DATA DATA DATA ..... DATA

The document in the index wouldn't have field2 attached to it.

Now my question is how will I search for all the documents with *empty*
Field2?

Cheerio



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