ode>field</code> - The <a href="../../../../org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.html" title="class in org.apache.solr.schema"><code>SchemaField</code></a> of the field to search</dd><dd><code>externalVal</code> - The String representation of the value to search</dd>
<dt><span class="strong">Returns:</span></dt><dd>The <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/core/5_1_0/core/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in org.apache.lucene.search"><code>Query</code></a> instance.  