first you should change your querypaser to accept wildcard query by calling
method of QueryParser
setAllowLeadingWildcard
then you can query like this: fieldname:*
2009/4/9 Tim Williams <[email protected]>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:45 AM, addman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > Is it possible to create a query to search a field for any value? I
> just
> > need to know if the optional field contain any data at all.
>
> google for: lucene field existence
>
> There's no way built in, one strategy[1] is to have a 'meta field'
> that contains the names of the fields the document contains.
>
> --tim
>
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