org.apache.lucene.search
Class IndexSearcher

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher
      org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.rmi.Remote, Searchable

public class IndexSearcher

extends Searcher

Implements search over a single IndexReader.

Applications usually need only call the inherited Searcher.search(Query) or Searcher.search(Query,Filter) methods. For performance reasons it is recommended to open only one IndexSearcher and use it for all of your searches.

Note that you can only access Hits from an IndexSearcher as long as it is not yet closed, otherwise an IOException will be thrown.

Constructor Summary

IndexSearcher(Directory directory)
Creates a searcher searching the index in the provided directory.

IndexSearcher(IndexReader r)
Creates a searcher searching the provided index.

IndexSearcher(java.lang.String path)
Creates a searcher searching the index in the named directory.

Method Summary

void	close() Note that the underlying IndexReader is not closed, if IndexSearcher was constructed with IndexSearcher(IndexReader r).
Document	doc(int i) Expert: Returns the stored fields of document i.
int	docFreq(Term term) Expert: Returns the number of documents containing term.
Explanation	explain(Weight weight, int doc) Expert: low-level implementation method Returns an Explanation that describes how doc scored against weight.
IndexReader	getIndexReader() Return the IndexReader this searches.
int	maxDoc() Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number.
Query	rewrite(Query original) Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries.
void	search(Weight weight, Filter filter, HitCollector results) Lower-level search API.
TopDocs	search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int nDocs) Expert: Low-level search implementation.
TopFieldDocs	search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int nDocs, Sort sort) Expert: Low-level search implementation with arbitrary sorting.

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

createWeight, docFreqs, explain, getSimilarity, search, search, search, search, search, search, search, search, setSimilarity

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

IndexSearcher

public IndexSearcher(java.lang.String path)
              throws java.io.IOException

Creates a searcher searching the index in the named directory.

IndexSearcher

public IndexSearcher(Directory directory)
              throws java.io.IOException

Creates a searcher searching the index in the provided directory.

IndexSearcher

public IndexSearcher(IndexReader r)

Creates a searcher searching the provided index.

Method Detail

getIndexReader

public IndexReader getIndexReader()

Return the IndexReader this searches.

close

public void close()
           throws java.io.IOException

Note that the underlying IndexReader is not closed, if IndexSearcher was constructed with IndexSearcher(IndexReader r). If the IndexReader was supplied implicitly by specifying a directory, then the IndexReader gets closed.

Specified by:

close in interface Searchable

Specified by:

close in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

docFreq

public int docFreq(Term term)
            throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Returns the number of documents containing term. Called by search code to compute term weights.

Specified by:

docFreq in interface Searchable

Specified by:

docFreq in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

doc

public Document doc(int i)
             throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Returns the stored fields of document i. Called by HitCollector implementations.

Specified by:

doc in interface Searchable

Specified by:

doc in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

maxDoc

public int maxDoc()
           throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number. Called by search code to compute term weights.

Specified by:

maxDoc in interface Searchable

Specified by:

maxDoc in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

search

public TopDocs search(Weight weight,
                      Filter filter,
                      int nDocs)
               throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Low-level search implementation. Finds the top n hits for query, applying filter if non-null.

Called by Hits.

Applications should usually call Searcher.search(Query) or Searcher.search(Query,Filter) instead.

Specified by:

search in interface Searchable

Specified by:

search in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

search

public TopFieldDocs search(Weight weight,
                           Filter filter,
                           int nDocs,
                           Sort sort)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Low-level search implementation with arbitrary sorting. Finds the top n hits for query, applying filter if non-null, and sorting the hits by the criteria in sort.

Applications should usually call Searcher.search(Query,Filter,Sort) instead.

Specified by:

search in interface Searchable

Specified by:

search in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

search

public void search(Weight weight,
                   Filter filter,
                   HitCollector results)
            throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Lower-level search API.

HitCollector.collect(int,float) is called for every non-zero scoring document.
HitCollector-based access to remote indexes is discouraged.

Applications should only use this if they need all of the matching documents. The high-level search API (Searcher.search(Query)) is usually more efficient, as it skips non-high-scoring hits.

Specified by:

search in interface Searchable

Specified by:

search in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

rewrite

public Query rewrite(Query original)
              throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries.

Specified by:

rewrite in interface Searchable

Specified by:

rewrite in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

explain

public Explanation explain(Weight weight,
                           int doc)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: low-level implementation method Returns an Explanation that describes how doc scored against weight.

This is intended to be used in developing Similarity implementations, and, for good performance, should not be displayed with every hit. Computing an explanation is as expensive as executing the query over the entire index.

Applications should call Searcher.explain(Query, int).

Specified by:

explain in interface Searchable

Specified by:

explain in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException