John, Thanks for answering. So if I have a document "A "with field "foo" and the field has attribute Field.NO and I have document "B" with field "foo" and the field is Field.TOKENIZED. Will IndexReader.getFieldNames(IndexReader.FieldOption.INDEXED) return field "foo"?
Thanks, Dimitri John Griffin-3 wrote: > > Dimitri, > > Field.TOKENIZED and Field.NO_NORMs send their field's contents > through a tokenizer and make their contents indexed and therefore > searchable. FIELD.UN_TOKENIZED does not send its field's contents through > a > tokenizer but it still indexes its contents. Only Field.NO does not index > its field's contents. > > So, regardless of whether or not a particular document has a field > tokenized while another document does not has nothing to do with whether > or > not the contents are indexed. As long as it's not Field.NO, they are. > > John G. > > -----Original Message----- > From: DimitriD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:14 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Field Question > > > I am new to lucene. Here is my question. The document has fields. When I > add > a field to the document I can specify that field is Indexed, Tokenized, > etc.. So the same field can be Tokenized in one document and be > not-tokenized in another document. However the is a method > IndexReader.getFieldNames(IndexReader.FieldOption.INDEXED) that returns > all > index fields in the index. It seems like it assumes that FIELD should have > the same attributes across all documents. > Can anyoen explain it? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Field-Question-tp19108787p19108787.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A-Field-Question-tp19116394p19136508.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]