Erik Hatcher wrote:
Is it possible for me to retrieve all the values of a particular field that exists within an index, across all documents?The trick is to enumerate terms with that field. Terms are sorted first by field, then by text, so all terms with a given field are adjacent in enumerations. Term enumeration is also efficient.
For example, I'm indexing documents that have a "category" associated with them. Several documents will share the same category. I'd like to be able to retrieve all categories.
try {
TermEnum terms = indexReader.terms(new Term("category", ""));
while ("category".equals(enum.term().field())) {
... collect enum.term().text() ...
if (!terms.next())
break;
}
} finally {
terms.close();
}
Doug
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