Hi You need to expand the field as below. Store the document and its associated values as one document.
Document Field-A Stored-Field D1 a1 1,2 D2 a2 3,10 Other alternative approach is to store these fields external to Lucene, may be in database or key-value-store and fetch it on demand. Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com -- we have collection of more than 1 million open source projects On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Alice Wong <airwayw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We would like to index some documents. Each field of a document may have > multiple values. And for each (field,value) pair there are some associated > values. These associated values are just for retrieving, not searching. > > For example, a document D could have a field named A. This field has two > values a1 and a2. > > It is easy to index D, adding term a1 and a2 to field A, so either query > "A=a1" or "A=a2" will return D. > > Assuming we have other values associated with (A,a1) and (A,a2) for D. We > would like to retrieve these associated values depending on whether "A=a1" > or "A=a2" is queried. > > For example, if query "A=a1" returns D, we would like to return values 1 > and 2. And if query "A=a2" returns D, we want to return values 3 and 10. > > Is it possible to do this with Lucene? Initially we want to hack postings > to return associated values, but this seems quite complex. > > Thanks! >
