Define "exists" A. ) Is not declared. B. ) It is declared, but it has no value. (Empty).
For B) you can use query= -(fieldA:["" TO *]) and it returns all the documents with fieldA empty (but declared in the doc)
Pako Umar Shah wrote:
hi, a related question: is there some way where we can specify action based on whether field A exists or not? -umar On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:If every document will definitely have a value for both fields, you can do... q = query & fq = -(+fieldA:0 +fieldB:0) ...it's more complicated if some docs don't have any value for one or both fields: if the fields are integers (and not floats) then the easiest thing to do is use some range queries... fq = fieldA:[* TO -1] fieldA:[1 TO *] fieldB:[* TO -1] fieldB:[1 TO *] ...for floats you would have to get really creative with your set logic ... i'm certain it's possible, i'm just not sure off the top of my head what the fq needs to look like. -Hoss
