ing like this or you need "Query
solution"?
- Original Message
From: Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Saturday, 19 July, 2008 12:00:39 AM
Subject: Re: Boolean expression for no terms OR matching a wildcard
Maybe this is easier .
matching prefixes to this fiield an make your query work like
> > "ALL_MATCH:800" and care not for the rest :) than yo would not need
> > field1 at all for these queries
> >
> > you were looking for something like this or you need "Query solution"
riginal Message
From: Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Saturday, 19 July, 2008 12:00:39 AM
Subject: Re: Boolean expression for no terms OR matching a wildcard
: Maybe this is easier ... suppose what I'm indexing is a phone
number, and
:
Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Sent: Saturday, 19 July, 2008 12:00:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Boolean expression for no terms OR matching a wildcard
>
> : Maybe this is easier ... suppose what I'm indexing is a phone number, and
> : there are m
: Maybe this is easier ... suppose what I'm indexing is a phone number, and
: there are multiple phone numbers for what I'm indexing under the same field
: (phone) and I want the wildcard query to match only records that have either
: no phone numbers at all OR where ALL phone numbers are in a spec
Thanks Chris (or if you prefer, Hoss) - I will definitely try that for
matching no docs, but one of the problems I'm having is that I'm
indexing multiple terms for one field and I need ALL the terms to
match it.
Maybe this is easier ... suppose what I'm indexing is a phone number,
and the
Assuming i understand your question: the fact that your first clause is a
wildcard query is irrelevant, to generalize your request you want a way to
query for all docs which either match some sub query, or have no terms in
the field at all. to find all docs with no terms for a given field, you
Can I assume that since nobody replied to this that there's no way to
perform this kind of search? What I think I need is two different
types of conditions:
1) a wildcard conditional that is forced to match against all indexed
values for a field
2) a conditional that matches when NO values at all
