org.apache.lucene.search.spans
Class SpanNotQuery

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.search.Query
      org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery
          org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanNotQuery

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, Serializable

public class SpanNotQuery

extends SpanQuery

Removes matches which overlap with another SpanQuery.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

SpanNotQuery(SpanQuery include, SpanQuery exclude)
Construct a SpanNotQuery matching spans from include which have no overlap with spans from exclude.

Method Summary

SpanQuery	getExclude() Return the SpanQuery whose matches must not overlap those returned.
String	getField() Returns the name of the field matched by this query.
SpanQuery	getInclude() Return the SpanQuery whose matches are filtered.
Spans	getSpans(IndexReader reader) Expert: Returns the matches for this query in an index.
Collection	getTerms() Returns a collection of all terms matched by this query.
String	toString(String field) Prints a query to a string, with field as the default field for terms.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery

createWeight

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.Query

clone, combine, getBoost, getSimilarity, mergeBooleanQueries, rewrite, setBoost, toString, weight

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SpanNotQuery

public SpanNotQuery(SpanQuery include,
                    SpanQuery exclude)

Construct a SpanNotQuery matching spans from include which have no overlap with spans from exclude.

Method Detail

getInclude

public SpanQuery getInclude()

Return the SpanQuery whose matches are filtered.

getExclude

public SpanQuery getExclude()

Return the SpanQuery whose matches must not overlap those returned.

getField

public String getField()

Description copied from class: SpanQuery

Returns the name of the field matched by this query.

Specified by:

getField in class SpanQuery

getTerms

public Collection getTerms()

Description copied from class: SpanQuery

Returns a collection of all terms matched by this query.

Specified by:

getTerms in class SpanQuery

toString

public String toString(String field)

Description copied from class: Query

Prints a query to a string, with field as the default field for terms.

The representation used is one that is readable by QueryParser (although, if the query was created by the parser, the printed representation may not be exactly what was parsed).

Specified by:

toString in class Query

getSpans

public Spans getSpans(IndexReader reader)
               throws IOException

Description copied from class: SpanQuery

Expert: Returns the matches for this query in an index. Used internally to search for spans.

Specified by:

getSpans in class SpanQuery

Throws:

IOException