[LUCENE-3593] Add a filter returning all document without a value in a field

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.6, 4.0-ALPHA
• Fix Version/s: 3.6, 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Simon Willnauer
• Reporter: Simon Willnauer
• Created: 24/Nov/11 21:45
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:02
• Resolved: 24/Nov/11 23:45

Description

In some situations it would be useful to have a Filter that simply returns all document that either have at least one or no value in a certain field. We don't have something like that out of the box and adding it seems straight forward.

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-3595 Refactor FieldCacheRangeFilter.FieldCacheDocIdSet to be separate class and fix the dangerous matchDoc() throws AIOOBE requirement