Of course you can do the inverse of what Erik said.
That is search for a term that you know is not in the index and use the NOT
operator.
Andrew
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From: Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jul 27, 2005 10:49 AM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Quick newbie question
On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Federico Tonioni wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have just a simple question
>
> How can I retrieve all documents in an index by using QueryParser?
> I thought
>
> Query query = QueryParser.parse("*", "contents",
> new StandardAnalyzer());
>
> might be the solution, but it's not:)
In general, you can't. Many have used a technique of indexing a
single field with the same value for all documents and done a query
for field:value to find all documents.
Erik
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