Thank you!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Krupansky [mailto:j...@basetechnology.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:05 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: How to query Solr for empty field or specific value

Better to define color.not_null as a boolean field and always initialize as 
either true or false.

But, even without that you need write a pure negative query or clause as

    (*:* -term)

So:

    select?q=*:*&fq=((*:* -color:[* TO *]) OR color:blue)

and

    select?q=*:*&fq=((*:* -color.not_null:[* TO *]) OR color:blue)

-- Jack Krupansky

-----Original Message-----
From: Van Tassell, Kristian
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 3:47 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: How to query Solr for empty field or specific value

Hello,

I'm using Solr 4.2 and am trying to get a specific value (blue) or null field 
(no color) returned by my filter query. My results should yield 3 documents (If 
I execute the two separate filters in different queries, I get
2 hits for one query and 1 for the other).

I've tried this (blue or no color set):

select?q=*:*&fq=(-color:[* TO *] OR color:blue)

When that returned zero hits, I added a new field called "color.not_null" 
and am setting it only if a color is defined (thinking there was a problem with 
using the same field name).

select?q=*:*&fq=(-color.not_null:[* TO *] OR color:blue)

That too yielded zero results. Again, executing them separately does return 
hits (3).

Does anyone see what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Kristian 

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