org.apache.solr.search

Interface PostFilter

All Superinterfaces:

ExtendedQuery

All Known Implementing Classes:

AnalyticsQuery, CollapsingQParserPlugin.CollapsingPostFilter, FunctionRangeQuery

public interface PostFilter
extends ExtendedQuery

The PostFilter interface provides a mechanism to further filter documents after they have already gone through the main query and other filters. This is appropriate for filters with a very high cost.

The filtering mechanism used is a DelegatingCollector that allows the filter to not call the delegate for certain documents, thus effectively filtering them out. This also avoids the normal filter advancing mechanism which asks for the first acceptable document on or after the target (which is undesirable for expensive filters). This collector interface also enables better performance when an external system must be consulted, since document ids may be buffered and batched into a single request to the external system.

Implementations of this interface must also be a Query. If an implementation can only support the collector method of filtering through getFilterCollector, then ExtendedQuery.getCached() should always return false, and ExtendedQuery.getCost() should return no less than 100.

See Also:

ExtendedQueryBase

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DelegatingCollector	getFilterCollector(IndexSearcher searcher) Returns a DelegatingCollector to be run after the main query and all of it's filters, but before any sorting or grouping collectors

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.solr.search.ExtendedQuery

getCache, getCacheSep, getCost, setCache, setCacheSep, setCost

Method Detail

getFilterCollector

DelegatingCollector getFilterCollector(IndexSearcher searcher)

Returns a DelegatingCollector to be run after the main query and all of it's filters, but before any sorting or grouping collectors