: OK I'm not sure I understand your answer. I thought TermEnum gave you
: all the terms in an index, not from a search result.
:
: Let me clarify what I need. I'm looking for a way to find out all the
: values of the FIELD_FILTER_LETTER field for any given search.
:
: INDEX TIME: (done for each
OK, I was thinking you were wondering how to get only the set of letters you
wanted the user to be able to choose from
You're right, the TermEnum/TermDocs tell you all of the terms in an index,
not really useful for your problem as I understand it now
How many documents do you have in y
OK I'm not sure I understand your answer. I thought TermEnum gave you
all the terms in an index, not from a search result.
Let me clarify what I need. I'm looking for a way to find out all the
values of the FIELD_FILTER_LETTER field for any given search.
INDEX TIME: (done for each indexed
See TermEnum (I don't think you need TermDocs for this). If you instantiate
a TermEnum(new Term("firstletterfield", "")), it'll enumerate all the terms
in your 'firstletter' field and you can just collect them and go...
For that matter, and assuming that your names are UN_TOKENIZED, you could do
I have a requirement to support filtering search results by first letter.
This is relatively simple by adding a field to each index that
represents the first letter for that relevant index and then adding a
filter to the search.
The hard part is that I need to list all the letters you can fil
