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.IX Title "Lucy::Search::Query 3pm"
.TH Lucy::Search::Query 3pm "2015-03-06" "perl v5.20.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Lucy::Search::Query \- A specification for a search query.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 3
\&    # Query is an abstract base class.
\&    package MyQuery;
\&    use base qw( Lucy::Search::Query );
\&    
\&    sub make_compiler {
\&        my ( $self, %args ) = @_;
\&        my $subordinate = delete $args{subordinate};
\&        my $compiler = MyCompiler\->new( %args, parent => $self );
\&        $compiler\->normalize unless $subordinate;
\&        return $compiler;
\&    }
\&    
\&    package MyCompiler;
\&    use base ( Lucy::Search::Compiler );
\&    ...
.Ve
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Query objects are simple containers which contain the minimum information
necessary to define a search query.
.PP
The most common way to generate Query objects is to feed a search string
such as 'foo \s-1AND\s0 bar' to a QueryParser's
\&\fIparse()\fR method, which outputs an abstract syntax tree built up from various
Query subclasses such as ANDQuery and
TermQuery.  However, it is also possible
to use custom Query objects to build a search specification which cannot be
easily represented using a search string.
.PP
Subclasses of Query must implement \fImake_compiler()\fR, which is the first step
in compiling a Query down to a Matcher which
can actually match and score documents.
.SH "CONSTRUCTORS"
.IX Header "CONSTRUCTORS"
.SS "new( \fI[labeled params]\fP )"
.IX Subsection "new( [labeled params] )"
.Vb 3
\&    my $query = MyQuery\->SUPER::new(
\&        boost => 2.5,
\&    );
.Ve
.PP
Abstract constructor.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBboost\fR \- A scoring multiplier, affecting the Query's relative
contribution to each document's score.  Typically defaults to 1.0, but
subclasses which do not contribute to document scores such as NOTQuery
and MatchAllQuery default to 0.0 instead.
.SH "ABSTRACT METHODS"
.IX Header "ABSTRACT METHODS"
.SS "make_compiler( \fI[labeled params]\fP )"
.IX Subsection "make_compiler( [labeled params] )"
Abstract factory method returning a Compiler derived from this Query.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBsearcher\fR \- A Searcher.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBboost\fR \- A scoring multiplier. Defaults to the Query's own boost.
.IP "\(bu" 4
\&\fBsubordinate\fR \- Indicates whether the Query is a subquery (as
opposed to a top-level query).  If false, the implementation must
invoke \fInormalize()\fR on the newly minted Compiler object before returning
it.
.SH "METHODS"
.IX Header "METHODS"
.SS "set_boost(boost)"
.IX Subsection "set_boost(boost)"
Set the Query's boost.
.SS "\fIget_boost()\fP"
.IX Subsection "get_boost()"
Get the Query's boost.
.SH "INHERITANCE"
.IX Header "INHERITANCE"
Lucy::Search::Query isa Lucy::Object::Obj.