Erik, Thank you for the fast response. After reading through the FAQ and JavaDoc, it appears that it what I really want to do.
Patrick On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:08:03 -0400, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suggest you aggregate all the text you want searchable into a single > field during indexing. Then search that field at query time instead. > > The alternative is to build up a (potentially huge) BooleanQuery using > that string for each field. The MultiFieldQueryParser can do this, but > its not pretty and I'm not fond of it. > > Erik > > > > On Aug 11, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Patrick Burleson wrote: > > > I would like to build a search that takes a string and parses it, then > > uses that string to search all fields available in the index. Is that > > possible without building up a huge boolean query of all my fields? I > > may not know the field names at runtime. > > > > Thanks, > > Patrick > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]