Package org.apache.lucene.search.join

Support for index-time and query-time joins.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
BitSetProducer	A producer of BitSets per segment.

Class Summary

Class	Description
BlockJoinSelector	Select a value from a block of documents.
CheckJoinIndex	Utility class to check a block join index.
JoinUtil	Utility for query time joining.
ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery	A query that returns all the matching child documents for a specific parent document indexed together in the same block.
QueryBitSetProducer	A BitSetProducer that wraps a query and caches matching BitSets per segment.
SeekingTermSetTermsEnum	A filtered TermsEnum that uses a BytesRefHash as a filter
ToChildBlockJoinQuery	Just like ToParentBlockJoinQuery, except this query joins in reverse: you provide a Query matching parent documents and it joins down to child documents.
ToParentBlockJoinQuery	This query requires that you index children and parent docs as a single block, using the IndexWriter.addDocuments() or IndexWriter.updateDocuments() API.
ToParentBlockJoinSortField	A special sort field that allows sorting parent docs based on nested / child level fields.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
BlockJoinSelector.Type	Type of selection to perform.
ScoreMode	How to aggregate multiple child hit scores into a single parent score.

Package org.apache.lucene.search.join Description

Support for index-time and query-time joins.

Index-time joins

The index-time joining support joins while searching, where joined documents are indexed as a single document block using IndexWriter.addDocuments(). This is useful for any normalized content (XML documents or database tables). In database terms, all rows for all joined tables matching a single row of the primary table must be indexed as a single document block, with the parent document being last in the group.

When you index in this way, the documents in your index are divided into parent documents (the last document of each block) and child documents (all others). You provide a BitSetProducer that identifies the parent documents, as Lucene does not currently record any information about doc blocks.

At search time, use ToParentBlockJoinQuery to remap/join matches from any child Query (ie, a query that matches only child documents) up to the parent document space. The resulting query can then be used as a clause in any query that matches parent.

If you care about what child documents matched for each parent document, then use the ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery query to per matched parent document retrieve the child documents that caused to match the parent document in first place. This query should be used after your main query has been executed. For each hit execute the the ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery query

   TopDocs results = searcher.search(mainQuery, 10);
   for (int i = 0; i < results.scoreDocs.length; i++) {
     ScoreDoc scoreDoc = results.scoreDocs[i];

     // Run ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery to figure out the top matching child docs:
     ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery parentChildrenBlockJoinQuery =
       new ParentChildrenBlockJoinQuery(parentFilter, childQuery, scoreDoc.doc);
     TopDocs topChildResults = searcher.search(parentChildrenBlockJoinQuery, 3);
     // Process top child hits...
   }
 

To map/join in the opposite direction, use ToChildBlockJoinQuery. This wraps any query matching parent documents, creating the joined query matching only child documents.

Query-time joins

The query time joining is index term based and implemented as two pass search. The first pass collects all the terms from a fromField that match the fromQuery. The second pass returns all documents that have matching terms in a toField to the terms collected in the first pass.

Query time joining has the following input:

• fromField: The from field to join from.
• fromQuery: The query executed to collect the from terms. This is usually the user specified query.
• multipleValuesPerDocument: Whether the fromField contains more than one value per document
• scoreMode: Defines how scores are translated to the other join side. If you don't care about scoring use ScoreMode.None mode. This will disable scoring and is therefore more efficient (requires less memory and is faster).
• toField: The to field to join to

Basically the query-time joining is accessible from one static method. The user of this method supplies the method with the described input and a IndexSearcher where the from terms need to be collected from. The returned query can be executed with the same IndexSearcher, but also with another IndexSearcher. Example usage of the JoinUtil.createJoinQuery() :

   String fromField = "from"; // Name of the from field
   boolean multipleValuesPerDocument = false; // Set only to true in the case when your fromField has multiple values per document in your index
   String toField = "to"; // Name of the to field
   ScoreMode scoreMode = ScoreMode.Max; // Defines how the scores are translated into the other side of the join.
   Query fromQuery = new TermQuery(new Term("content", searchTerm)); // Query executed to collect from values to join to the to values
 
   Query joinQuery = JoinUtil.createJoinQuery(fromField, multipleValuesPerDocument, toField, fromQuery, fromSearcher, scoreMode);
   TopDocs topDocs = toSearcher.search(joinQuery, 10); // Note: toSearcher can be the same as the fromSearcher
   // Render topDocs...