## org.apache.lucene.index
Class Term

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.index.Term

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Serializable, Comparable

    public final class Term

extends Object
implements Comparable, Serializable

A Term represents a word from text. This is the unit of search. It is composed of two elements, the text of the word, as a string, and the name of the field that the text occured in, an interned string. Note that terms may represent more than words from text fields, but also things like dates, email addresses, urls, etc.

See Also:
  Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
`Term(String fld, String txt)` Constructs a Term with the given field and text.

Method Summary
`int` `compareTo(Object other)`
`int` `compareTo(Term other)` Compares two terms, returning a negative integer if this term belongs before the argument, zero if this term is equal to the argument, and a positive integer if this term belongs after the argument.
`Term` `createTerm(String text)` Optimized construction of new Terms by reusing same field as this Term - avoids field.intern() overhead
`boolean` `equals(Object o)` Compares two terms, returning true iff they have the same field and text.
`String` `field()` Returns the field of this term, an interned string.
`int` `hashCode()` Combines the hashCode() of the field and the text.
`String` `text()` Returns the text of this term.
`String` `toString()`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### Term

    public Term(String fld,
                String txt)

  Constructs a Term with the given field and text.

  Note that a null field or null text value results in undefined behavior for most Lucene APIs that accept a Term parameter.

Method Detail

### field

    public final String field()

  Returns the field of this term, an interned string. The field indicates the part of a document which this term came from.

### text

    public final String text()

  Returns the text of this term. In the case of words, this is simply the text of the word. In the case of dates and other types, this is an encoding of the object as a string.

### createTerm

    public Term createTerm(String text)

  Optimized construction of new Terms by reusing same field as this Term - avoids field.intern() overhead

  Parameters:
    `text` - The text of the new term (field is implicitly same as this Term instance)
  Returns:
    A new Term

### equals

    public final boolean equals(Object o)

  Compares two terms, returning true iff they have the same field and text.

  Overrides:
    `equals` in class `Object`

### hashCode

    public final int hashCode()

  Combines the hashCode() of the field and the text.

  Overrides:
    `hashCode` in class `Object`

### compareTo

    public int compareTo(Object other)

  Specified by:
    `compareTo` in interface `Comparable`

### compareTo

    public final int compareTo(Term other)

  Compares two terms, returning a negative integer if this term belongs before the argument, zero if this term is equal to the argument, and a positive integer if this term belongs after the argument. The ordering of terms is first by field, then by text.

### toString

    public final String toString()

  Overrides:
    `toString` in class `Object`

Copyright © 2000-2008 Apache Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved.