You are doing it correctly. I tend to use MultiFieldQueryParser, but lots of people have 1 'all' field like you.
Otis --- Peter Pimley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > I'm a relative newbie with lucene, but I've got it set up on my > system > and it's working well. > > I'd like it to be the case that the default behaviour is to search > across all the Fields of all my Documents. At the moment, when I > create > my Document object, the last thing I do is to create an extra Field > called 'all', whose content is the concatinated contents of all the > other fields. Then, when I use the QueryParser, I pass in 'all' as > the > value of the default field parameter. > > This works, but it makes my index a little under twice as large as it > > would otherwise be. That's not a great problem as I'm nowhere near > bound by storage space (yet), but it feels a bit weird. I can't use > a > MultiFieldQueryParser, because at the point where I parse the query, > I > don't actually know the names of the fields. > > Have I missed the correct way to do this? > > Thanks in advance, > Peter Pimley > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
