Re: QueryParser returns all documents

2006-09-05 Thread Laurent Hoss
Why not add a single Field to each Document, like |d.add(*new *Field("doctype","document", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.TOKENIZED));| Then searching for "doctype:document" returns all documents -Laurent lude wrote: Why would you want to do this? This is a 'feature-request' of our searcheng

Re: QueryParser returns all documents

2006-09-05 Thread Ronnie Kolehmainen
You could define your own query syntax (for example an empty string) for a query matching all docs, examine the query string before passing it to QueryParser, and instead create a MatchAllDocsQuery when a you have a match. http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/search/MatchAll

Re: QueryParser returns all documents

2006-09-05 Thread lude
Why would you want to do this? This is a 'feature-request' of our searchengine. The user should have the possibilty to query for all(!) documents. This would allow him to see all available document listet. Is there a simple way to define a query that returns all documents of an index? Thanks l

Re: QueryParser returns all documents

2006-09-04 Thread Erick Erickson
Also, as I remember, there's explicitly no support for a query consisting just of "not x" On 9/4/06, lude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, a simple, stupid question to the friendly mailinglist: How do you have to define the query-string to get all documents of an index be returned by using t

Re: QueryParser returns all documents

2006-09-04 Thread karl wettin
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 22:32 +0200, lude wrote: > How do you have to define the query-string to get all documents of an index > be returned by using the QueryParser? > In theory a query like 'NOT word_not_in_index' should find and return all > documents. In practice this doesn't work (no documents

QueryParser returns all documents

2006-09-04 Thread lude
Hello, a simple, stupid question to the friendly mailinglist: How do you have to define the query-string to get all documents of an index be returned by using the QueryParser? In theory a query like 'NOT word_not_in_index' should find and return all documents. In practice this doesn't work (no d