org.apache.lucene.search

Interface Matches

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Iterable<java.lang.String>

public interface Matches
extends java.lang.Iterable<java.lang.String>

Reports the positions and optionally offsets of all matching terms in a query for a single document To obtain a MatchesIterator for a particular field, call getMatches(String). Note that you can call getMatches(String) multiple times to retrieve new iterators, but it is not thread-safe.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
MatchesIterator	getMatches(java.lang.String field) Returns a MatchesIterator over the matches for a single field, or null if there are no matches in that field.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Iterable

forEach, iterator, spliterator

Method Detail

getMatches

MatchesIterator getMatches(java.lang.String field)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Returns a MatchesIterator over the matches for a single field, or null if there are no matches in that field.

Throws:

java.io.IOException