[LUCENE-3370] Support for a "SpanNotNearQuery"

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Trejkaz
• Created: 10/Aug/11 06:10
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:55

Description

Sometimes you want to find an instance of a span which does not hit near some other span query. SpanNotQuery only excludes exact hits on the term, but sometimes you want to exclude hits 1 away from the first, and other times you might want the range to be wider.

So a SpanNotNearQuery could be useful.

SpanNotQuery is actually very close, and adding slop+inOrder support to it is probably sufficient to make a SpanNotNearQuery.

There appears to be one project which has done it in this fashion, although this particular code looks like it's out of date:

http://www.koders.com/java/fid933A84488EBE1F3492B19DE01B2A4FC1D68DA258.aspx?s=ArrayQuery

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-5091 Modify SpanNotQuery to act as SpanNotNearQuery too