Hi Chris, I asked exactly the same question a little while ago and got a pretty good answer from Paul Elschot. Try searching the archives for 'Filtering a SpanQuery'. It was around the 13/5/08.
Hope it helps, Eran. On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Christopher M Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me if it's possible to apply a filter to a SpanQuery and > still use query.getSpans(indexReader)? I'm using getSpans to get back the > original positions in the text but I would like to filter the results > returned by getSpans. I have a Filter I can apply if I just search with > the query, but I don't see a way to apply the filter and still use the > getSpans method. I thought maybe FilteredQuery looked promising, but of > course if I wrap my SpanQuery and Filter in a FilteredQuery, getSpans is no > longer available. > > Any suggestions? Thanks! > > Chris > ______________________________________________________________ > Christopher Collins \ http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ccollins > Department of Computer Science \ University of Toronto > Collaborative User Experience Group \ IBM Research
