Is there a way to use a proximity operator (like near or within) with Lucene?
Created May 7, 2012
Otis Gospodnetic There is a variable called slop in PhraseQuery that allows you to perform NEAR/WITHIN-like queries.
By default, slop is set to 0 so that only exact phrases will match. However, you can alter the value using the setSlop(int) method.
For instance, setSlop(3) will let you find documents containing a phrase such as "monkeys love bananas".
By default, slop is set to 0 so that only exact phrases will match. However, you can alter the value using the setSlop(int) method.
For instance, setSlop(3) will let you find documents containing a phrase such as "monkeys love bananas".
There is currently no way to specify the slop in the query, although there has been some discussion about it on the Lucene mailing list recently.