Lucene - Indexing Operations

Lucene - Query Programming

Quiz

This class is the lowest unit of searching. It is similar to Field in indexing process.

Following is the declaration for org.apache.lucene.index.Term class −

public final class Term
   extends Object
      implements Comparable<Term>, Accountable

Following table shows the constructors for Term −

S.No.	Constructors & Description
1	Term(String fld) Constructs a Term with the given field and empty text.
2	Term(String fld, String text) Constructs a Term with the given field and text.
3	Term(String fld, BytesRef bytes) Constructs a Term with the given field and bytes.
4	Term(String fld, BytesRefBuilder bytesBuilder) Constructs a Term with the given field and the bytes from a builder.

S.No.	Method & Description
1	BytesRef bytes() Returns the bytes of this term, these should not be modified.
2	int compareTo(Term other) Compares two terms, returning a negative integer if this term belongs before the argument, zero if this term is equal to the argument, and a positive integer if this term belongs after the argument.
3	boolean equals(Object obj) Compares objects for equality.
4	String field() Returns the field of this term.
5	int hashCode() Returns the hashcode of this term.
6	long ramBytesUsed() Return the memory usage of this object in bytes.
7	String text() Returns the text of this term.
8	String toString() Returns String representation.
9	static String toString(BytesRef termText) Returns human-readable form of the term text.

This class inherits methods from the following classes −

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