org.apache.lucene.search.spans
Class Spans

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans

Direct Known Subclasses:

NearSpansOrdered, NearSpansUnordered, SpanPositionCheckQuery.PositionCheckSpan, TermSpans

public abstract class Spans
extends Object

Expert: an enumeration of span matches. Used to implement span searching. Each span represents a range of term positions within a document. Matches are enumerated in order, by increasing document number, within that by increasing start position and finally by increasing end position.

Constructor Summary

Spans()

Method Summary

abstract int	doc() Returns the document number of the current match.
abstract int	end() Returns the end position of the current match.
abstract Collection<byte[]>	getPayload() Returns the payload data for the current span.
abstract boolean	isPayloadAvailable() Checks if a payload can be loaded at this position.
abstract boolean	next() Move to the next match, returning true iff any such exists.
abstract boolean	skipTo(int target) Skips to the first match beyond the current, whose document number is greater than or equal to target.
abstract int	start() Returns the start position of the current match.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Spans

public Spans()

Method Detail

next

public abstract boolean next()
                      throws IOException

Move to the next match, returning true iff any such exists.

Throws:

IOException

skipTo

public abstract boolean skipTo(int target)
                        throws IOException

Skips to the first match beyond the current, whose document number is greater than or equal to target.

Returns true iff there is such a match.

Behaves as if written:

   boolean skipTo(int target) {
     do {
       if (!next())
             return false;
     } while (target > doc());
     return true;
   }
 

Most implementations are considerably more efficient than that.

Throws:

IOException

doc

public abstract int doc()

Returns the document number of the current match. Initially invalid.

start

public abstract int start()

Returns the start position of the current match. Initially invalid.

end

public abstract int end()

Returns the end position of the current match. Initially invalid.

getPayload

public abstract Collection<byte[]> getPayload()
                                       throws IOException

Returns the payload data for the current span. This is invalid until next() is called for the first time. This method must not be called more than once after each call of next(). However, most payloads are loaded lazily, so if the payload data for the current position is not needed, this method may not be called at all for performance reasons. An ordered SpanQuery does not lazy load, so if you have payloads in your index and you do not want ordered SpanNearQuerys to collect payloads, you can disable collection with a constructor option.

Note that the return type is a collection, thus the ordering should not be relied upon.

Returns:

a List of byte arrays containing the data of this payload, otherwise null if isPayloadAvailable is false

Throws:

IOException

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

isPayloadAvailable

public abstract boolean isPayloadAvailable()

Checks if a payload can be loaded at this position.

Payloads can only be loaded once per call to next().

Returns:

true if there is a payload available at this position that can be loaded