There are search methods that don't require a filter, but you are right that there is nothing quite as simple as search(q).
>From http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/95032 you can use TopDocs tp = ms.search(lucquery, 1); And then the total count is in tp.totalHits -- Ian. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Michael Wiegand <michael.wieg...@lsv.uni-saarland.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently mainly interested in the overall number of matches in a > document collection (several GBs) given a particular query. > At the moment I am not interested in the matching documents themselves; just > the number would be sufficient. > In previous versions of lucene the Searcher class had a method "search(Query > query)" but this method is now deprecated. > The alternative methods of "search()" (that are not deprecated) require the > user to specify the number of topN documents and a filter. > Is there no counterpart for the old plain "search(Query query)"? > > > Thank you in advance. > > Best, > Michael > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
