2.4.7 Multi-valued Fields
Suppose your documents have an author field, but sometimes there’s more than one author for a document. One way to handle this would be to loop through all the authors, appending them into a single String, which you could then use to create a Lucene Field. Another, perhaps more elegant way is to just keep adding the same Field with different value, like this:

Document doc = new Document();
for (int i = 0; i < authors.length; i++)
{
doc.add(new Field("author", authors[i],
Field.Store.YES,
Field.Index.ANALYZED));
}

I think the code above doesn't reflect what the author is trying to say. Its creating additional documents instead of Multi-Valued fields. Can you verify and fix please?

Thanks!

I don't have the manuscript handy right now, but the code seems to match the description - note that there is only 1 Document instance outside of the for loop.

Otis

I think you are right, I read it wrong. Info and code both match, scratch this.

Cheers!

doc.add(new Field("author", authors,

should read

doc.add(new Field("author", authors[i] // <-- Index into the authors

Otherwise, you're adding (or trying to add) the collection over and over again! Otherwise, I think it makes sense.

Ah, it should be authors[[ii]] in there. (I had to put extra brackets and 2 'i's, otherwise nothing would get shown because it happens to trigger italic markup)