[LUCENE-5091] Modify SpanNotQuery to act as SpanNotNearQuery too

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 4.5, 6.0
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 03/Jul/13 20:19
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:49
• Resolved: 26/Jul/13 19:58

Description

With very small modifications, SpanNotQuery can act as a SpanNotNearQuery.

To find "a" but not if "b" appears 3 tokens before or 4 tokens after "a":
new SpanNotQuery("a", "b", 3, 4)

Original constructor still exists and calls SpanNotQuery("a", "b", 0, 0).

Patch with tests on way.

Issue Links

• is related to: LUCENE-3370 Support for a "SpanNotNearQuery"