Essentially I'd like to construct a query which is almost like SQL in clause.  
The lucene document contains the id and a string value. I'd like to get the 
string value based on the id key.  The ids may range within 1000. Is this 
possible to do?

Thanks
Amin

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On 26 Nov 2010, at 20:18, Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> wrote:

> What sort of ranges are you trying to use?  Maybe you could store a
> separate field, just for these queries, with some normalized form of
> the ids, with all numbers padded out to the same length etc.
> 
> --
> Ian.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman <ami...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Unfortunately my range query approach did not work.   It seems to be related 
>> to the ids themselves.  The list has ids that look this:
>> 
>> 
>> ID-NYC-1234
>> ID-LND-1234
>> TX-NYC-1334
>> TX-NYC-BBC-123
>> 
>> The ids may range from 90 to 1000.  Is there another approach I could take?  
>> I tried building a string with all the ids and set them against a field for 
>> example:
>> 
>> dataId: ID-NYC-123 dataId: ID-NYC-1234....
>> 
>> but that's not a great approach I know...
>> 
>> any help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Amin
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 26 Nov 2010, at 14:39, Ian Lea wrote:
>> 
>>> Absolutely, as long as your ids will sort as you expect.
>>> 
>>> I'm not clear what you mean by XDF-123 but if you've got
>>> 
>>> AAA-123
>>> AAA-124
>>> ...
>>> ABC-123
>>> ABC-234
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> then you'll be fine.  If they don't sort so neatly you can use the
>>> TermRangeQuery constructor that takes a Collator but note the
>>> performance warning in the javadocs.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Ian.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Amin Mohammed-Coleman <ami...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi All
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering whether I can use TermRangeQuery for my use case.  I have 
>>>> a collection of ids (represented as XDF-123) and I would like to do a 
>>>> search for all the ids (might be in the range of 10000) and for each 
>>>> matching id I want to get the corresponding data that is stored in the 
>>>> index (for example the document contains id and string value).  I am using 
>>>> a custom collector to collect that string value for each match.  Is it ok 
>>>> to use a TermRangeQuery for the ids rather than creating a massive query 
>>>> string?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Amin
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