Have you enabled leading wildcards? They are not (or at least weren't last I knew) enabled by default....
<<<QueryParser.setAllowLeadingWildcard( true )>>> from http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LuceneFAQ#head-4d62118417eaef0dcb87f4370583f809848ea695 Best Erick On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:24 AM, no spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason our users want to do this is because they want to search for > instances where certain negative conditions are true. My client is the > news > industry and this is metadata for things like reporter, type, etc. > Sometimes you want -reporter:mark for example and this is the only > criteria > to search against the index. > > Am I thinking about this wrong? > > I did try using the MatchAllDocsQuery class and it expands to something > like > this: > > summary:matchalldocsquery -reporter:*mark* > > but I don't get any results which is not what I expect for my does not > contain query above. > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Anshum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > An easy way to do that would be to index a particular term with all docs > > e.g. "dummyword" could be indexed for all documents as a value for a > > dummyfield or an existing field. > > This way lets assume you want to fetch results for -filed1:jakarta > > You could search for dummyfield:"dummyword" AND NOT filed1:jakarta > > > > This is just one of the solution, though I still would not understand if > > there's a logical reason for fetching such results.:) > > > > -- >
