[LUCENE-6304] Add MatchNoDocsQuery that matches no documents

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.1, 6.0
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lee Hinman
• Created: 26/Feb/15 21:09
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:27
• Resolved: 04/Mar/15 09:27

Description

As a followup to LUCENE-6298, it would be nice to have an explicit MatchNoDocsQuery to indicate that no documents should be matched. This would hopefully be a better indicator than a BooleanQuery with no clauses or (even worse) null.