[LUCENE-8407] Add SpanTermQuery.getTermStates()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.5
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: David Smiley
• Reporter: David Smiley
• Created: 17/Jul/18 20:09
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:33
• Resolved: 18/Jul/18 13:20

Description

Adding a getTermStates() to the TermStates in a SpanTermQuery would be useful, just like we have similarly for a TermQuery – LUCENE-8379.  It would be useful for LUCENE-6513 to avoid a needless inner ScoreTerm class when a SpanTermQuery would suffice.