Lucene 4 Cookbook

PhraseQuery and MultiPhraseQuery

A PhraseQuery matches a particular sequence of terms, while a MultiPhraseQuery gives you an option to match multiple terms in the same position. For example, MultiPhrasQuery supports a phrase such as humpty (dumpty OR together) in which it matches humpty in position 0 and dumpty or together in position 1.

How to do it...

Here is a code snippet to demonstrate both Query types:

PhraseQuery query = new PhraseQuery(); query.add(new Term("content", "humpty")); query.add(new Term("content", "together")); MultiPhraseQuery query2 = new MultiPhraseQuery(); Term[] terms1 = new Term[1];terms1[0] = new Term("content", "humpty"); Term[] terms2 = new Term[2];terms2[0] = new Term("content", "dumpty"); terms2[1] = new Term("content", ...