Lucene - Term

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

Class Declaration

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

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

The following table shows a list of class constructors −

S.No.	Constructor & Description
1	Term(String fld) Constructs a Term with the given field and empty text.
2	Term(String fld, String txt) Constructs a Term with the given field and text.

S.No.

Constructor & Description

Term(String fld)

Constructs a Term with the given field and empty text.

Term(String fld, String txt)

Constructs a Term with the given field and text.

The following table shows the different class methods −

S.No.	Method & Description
1	void addDocument(Document doc) Adds a document to this index.
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	Term createTerm(String text) Optimized construction of new Terms by reusing same field as this Term - avoids field.intern() overhead.
4	boolean equals(Object obj)
5	String field() Returns the field of this term, an interned string.
6	int hashCode()
7	String text() Returns the text of this term.
8	String toString()

This class inherits methods from the following classes −

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