Yow! - that's very helpful. Thanks much!
Question about an apparent assumption in your example - is it true that
spans always stream in increasing document order? Is that a guarantee or
just a fact about the currently implementation?
Greg
On 11/16/05, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Greg K wrote:
> > Now, however, I'd like to be able restrict the search to certain
> documents
> > in the index, so I don't have to stream through a couple of thousand
> spans
> > to produce the 10 excerpts on a subset of the documents.
> >
> > I've tried added a term to the SpanNearQueries that targets a keyword
> field
> > containing the document ids, but SNQ (understandably) can't handle that.
> > There isn't a SpanBooleanQuery and if I wrap the SpanOrQuery in a
> > BooleanQuery I'll lose access to the getSpans() method - same if I use a
> > Filter - can't get spans out of a Hits object, right?
> >
> > Am I missing something? Is there a straightforward way to do what I'm
> trying
> > to do that I'm missing?
>
> I think what you need is a SpanAndQuery, with a constructor like:
>
> SpanAndQuery(SpanQuery spanQ, Query docsQ);
>
> This would return the subset of spans matching spanQ whose documents
> match docQ. This should not be too hard to implement. Its Spans
> implementation might look something like:
>
> private Spans spans;
> private Scorer docs;
> private boolean more;
>
> public SpanAndSpans(SpanQuery spanQ, Query docQ,
> IndexReader reader, Searcher searcher) {
> spans = spanQ.getSpans(reader);
> docs = docQ.weight(searcher).scorer(reader);
> more = docs.next();
> }
>
> public boolean next() throws IOException {
> if (!more) return false;
> more = spans.next();
> while (more) {
> if (spans.doc() > docs.doc()) {
> more = docs.skipTo(spans.doc());
> } else if (spans.doc() < docs.doc()) {
> more = spans.skipTo(docs.doc ());
> } else if (spans.doc() == docs.doc()) {
> return true;
> }
> }
> return false;
> }
>
> public boolean skipTo(int doc) throws IOException {
> if (!more) return false;
> more = docs.skipTo(doc);
> return next();
> }
>
> This is untested and incomplete, but does it look like the right
> direction?
>
> Doug
>
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