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.
> 
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> 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?
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