If you really want to have _all_ defined (and therefore possible fields) you should have a look to http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LukeRequestHandler
Regards Stefan On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Public Network Services <publicnetworkservi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi... > > I would like to get a list of all field names in a Solr index, much like the > web admin can list all these fields in Schema Browser. It sounds trivial, > but still looking around as to how it would best be implemented. > > If I run a query with the wildcard string ("*:*"), not all field names are > included in all returned documents (rows), so I have to retrieve several > rows (i.e., a SolrDocumentList) and then iterate over all these rows > (documents) and use the getFieldNames() method on each. This is a hack and > does not produce 100% reliable results (e.g., how many rows to retrieve in > order to get all the field names?). > > So, how is this properly done? > > Thanks! >