: > TermEnum terms = searcher.getReader().terms(new Term(field, ""));
: > while (terms.term() != null && terms.term().field() == field){
: > //do things
: > terms.next();
: > }
: while( te.next() ) {
: final Term term = te.term();
you're missing the key piece that Ard alluded to ... the there is one
ordere list of all terms stored in the index ... a TermEnum lets you
iterate over this ordered list, and the IndexReader.terms(Term) method
lets you efficiently start at an arbitrary term. if you are only
interested in terms for a specific field, once your TermEnum returns a
differnet field, you can stop -- you will never get any more terms for
the field you care about (hence Ard's terms.term().field() == field in his
loop conditional)
-Hoss
