MatchAllDocsQuery.
It's in the FAQ.
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ#How_does_one_determine_which_documents_do_not_have_a_certain_term.3F
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Ian.
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Sam Jiang <sam.ji...@karoshealth.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm struggling to figure out a way to query for the non-existence of some
> fields. e.g. matches all documents that doesn't contain field X
>
> I tried:
> BooleanQuery q = new BooleanQuery();
> q.add(new BooleanClause(
> new TermQuery(new Term("fieldName", "*")),
> Occur.MUST_NOT));
>
> but then I realized the javadoc says it's impossible to query with a mere
> MUST_NOT clause
>
>
> A workaround I can think of is to add stub fields of name "", but this
> increases the size of the index =/
>
> any suggestions are welcome
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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