For some reason I had it in my head that the sub-parts of a boolean query had to either be terms or phrases, but I now see that they can be a generic Query, so your suggestion might work nicely.
I had since discovered DisjunctionMaxQuery, which might also work... Anyway, thanks very much for your reply. ----- On May 12, 2016, at 6:48 PM, Alan Woodward <a...@flax.co.uk> wrote: > Try adding your multiple SpanNearQuery objects to a BooleanQuery? > Alan Woodward > www.flax.co.uk > On 12 May 2016, at 20:35, Daniel Bigham wrote: >> I'm very interested in SpanNearQuery, because it allows for quite powerful > > phrasal searching. >> However, unlike BooleanQuery, there doesn't seem to be any way to have it >> search > > multiple fields. >> I thought I might be able to wrap multiple SpanNearQueries, each of them >> searching a different field, in an outer SpanOrQuery, but that raises an > > exception: > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Clauses must have same field. > > at org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanOrQuery.addClause(SpanOrQuery.java:63) >> So, is there any way to do what I'd like to do? Would it require performing >> multiple search operations, once per field, and then combining the results >> from > > those multiple queries? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
