Howdy Lucy-users,

My client requires the ability to search for blank fields. In other words, 
they'd like to construct search queries that parse as e.g. "Show me all results 
with the title 'MyTitle' but no description", and this would return as hits all 
items whose "title" field contains "MyTitle", and whose "description" field is 
completely blank.

These sort of null-searches don't appear to be an out-of-the-box feature of 
Lucy's default query parser; a naive query like "title:MyTitle AND 
description:" doesn't work as I hope. So it looks like I will have to knit some 
custom magic here, or perhaps use an extension module. I write this list in the 
hope for some introductory pointers; I'm a little unsure where to start, or 
whether this is a solved problem and I'm not finding it.

Thank you!

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Jason McIntosh

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