That is a very interesting idea. I might give that a shot.
Thanks,
Patrick
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:36:11 -0400, Tate Avery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I had to do this once and I put a field called "all" with a value of "true" for
> every document.
>
> _doc.addField(Field.Keyword("all", "true"));
>
> Then, if there was an empty query, I would substitute it for the query "all:true".
> And, of course, every doc would match this.
>
> There might be a MUCH more elegant solution, but this certainly worked for me and
> was quite easy to incorporate. And, it appears to order the documents by the order
> in which they were indexed.
>
> T
>
> p.s. You can probably do something using IndexReader directly... but the nice thing
> about this approach is that you are still just using a simple query.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Burleson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: Lucene Users List
> Subject: Finding All?
>
> Is there a way for lucene to find all documents? Say if I have a
> search input and someone puts nothing in I want to go ahead and
> return everything. Passing "*" to QueryParser was not pretty.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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