[pylucene-dev] Working with getFieldNames()

[Andi Vajda]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> My environment: Python 2.4, PyLucene 2.0.0, tested on FC1 and Mac OS X 10.4.7 
> Intel
>
> I've come across a slightly odd problem, and I'm not sure what I'm doing 
> wrong. Basically, the issue is that no matter what constant I pass for the 
> parameter, calls to myIndexReader.getFieldNames() return an empty list. I get 
> the same results on Linux and Mac OS X, but the test for this feature does 
> appear to pass just fine, and on top of that, I can query fields in the index 
> without problems.
>
> Here's a code snippet, where self.indexdir is the directory containing the 
> PyLucene index:
>
> reader = PyLucene.IndexReader.open(self.indexdir)
> info["NumDocs"] = reader.numDocs()
> info["Fields"] = reader.getFieldNames(PyLucene.IndexReader.FieldOption.ALL)
>
> Since the test passes, I'm fairly certain I've got a problem in my code 
> somewhere, but I was wondering if anyone may have come across this behavior 
> before or knows what kind of mistake could cause it to happen. Aside from 
> this issue, searching, indexing, etc. seems to work just fine (and I get a 
> valid value for numDocs() as well).

I've reproduced the problem as described and I'm just as mystified.
Debugging...

Andi..