Public Instance Methods
 Close | Frees resources associated with this Searcher. Be careful not to call this method while you are still using objects like {@link Hits}. |
| Doc | Expert: Returns the stored fields of document i. Called by {@link HitCollector} implementations. |
| DocFreq | Expert: Returns the number of documents containing term. Called by search code to compute term weights. |
| DocFreqs | Expert: For each term in the terms array, calculates the number of documents containing term. Returns an array with these document frequencies. Used to minimize number of remote calls. |
| Explain | Overloaded. Identical to {@link #Search(Query, Filter, HitCollector)}, but takes a Weight instead of a query. |
| MaxDoc | Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number. Called by search code to compute term weights. |
| Rewrite | Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries. |
| Search | Overloaded. Expert: Low-level search implementation. Identical to {@link #Search(Query, Filter, int, Sort)}, but takes a Weight instead of a query. |