com.lucene.search
Class Query

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.lucene.search.Query

Direct Known Subclasses:

BooleanQuery, PhraseQuery, PrefixQuery, TermQuery

public abstract class Query

extends Object

The abstract base class for queries.

Instantiable subclasses are:

• TermQuery
• PhraseQuery
• BooleanQuery

A parser for queries is contained in:

• QueryParser

Constructor Summary

Query()

Method Summary

abstract String

toString(String field) Prints a query to a string, with field as the default field for terms.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Query

public Query()

Method Detail

toString

public abstract String toString(String field)

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).