matching all documents in which a field is defined

[Ed Phillips]

Hello,

I have a rather simple question. The answer was not immediately obvious after
looking at the docs and a cursory search of the mailing list archives,
hence the question.

Solr provides some ways of querying for all documents in which a field
is present such as "field_name:[* TO *]", or for all documents such as the
"*:*" query.

What are the Sunspot practices and/or idioms for such queries?

Thank you.

[Matthew A. Brown]

Hey Ed,

Mildly unintuitive, perhaps, but just do:

without(:field_name, nil)

Mat

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[Matthew A. Brown]

Hi Ed,

It's perhaps mildly unintuitive, but you can just do:

    without(:field_name, nil)

Since Sunspot interprets nil in a filter as "has no indexed value".

Mat

[Ed Phillips]

Thank you. I did not try that yet! Unintuitive, perhaps, but terse
enough.

Cheers,

Ed