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Subject: RE: Finding All?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:36:11 -0400
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Thread-Topic: Finding All?
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From: "Tate Avery" <tate.avery@nstein.com>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org>


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:pburleson@gmail.com]
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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