Thanks Erick.
I finally had time to go back and look at this problem. I discovered
that the analyzed fields work fine for searching until I use
IndexWriter.updateDocument().
The way my application runs, it has to update documents several times to
update one specific field. The update code queries
You cannot retrieve non-stored fields. They are analyzed and tokenized
during indexing and this is a one-way transformation. If you update
documents you have to reindex the contents. If you do not have access to the
original contents anymore, you may consider adding a stored-only "raw
document" fie
Adding to Uwe's comment, you may be operating under a false
assumption. Lucene has no capability to update fields in a document.
Period. This is one of the most frequently requested changes, but
the nature of an inverted index makes this...er...tricky. Updates
are really a document delete followed
"Uwe Schindler" writes:
> You cannot retrieve non-stored fields. They are analyzed and tokenized
> during indexing and this is a one-way transformation. If you update
> documents you have to reindex the contents. If you do not have access to the
> original contents anymore, you may consider adding
