This sounds like a filter would work here. The basic idea of a filter
is that it's a bitmap where each bit's ordinal position
represents the a doc ID. Only documents corresponding to
"on" bits are returned.
Filters can be combined, flipped, etc. All the things you'd expect
to do with a bunch of bits. See the Filter class.
See TermEnum/TermDocs for ways to get the Lucene ID
corresponding to a particular term (i.e. one of the BooleanClauses
you were creating), which corresponds to a bit to turn on or
off in your Filter.
Also see CachingWrapperFilter and ChainedFilter as well.
Best
Erick
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:44 PM, prabin meitei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi, I have a large index of documents of fields "id" "name" and few
> other.
> while querying i do want to exclude a list of ids i passed in.
>
> for this what i use is
> Query query = new BooleanQuery();
>
> for (int i=0; i<list.size(); i++){
>
> term = new Term("id", list.get(i).toString());
>
> termQuery = new TermQuery(term);
>
> query.add(termQuery, Occur.MUST_NOT);
>
> }
>
>
> the problem with this is that when my list size grows larger (more than
> 1024) it gives tooManyBooleanCauses exception.
>
>
> i tried by changing the query to
>
> query.add(new QueryParser("id", new
> StandardAnalyzer()).parse(list.toString()),
> Occur.MUST_NOT);
>
>
> this also gives the same problem when list size is big.
>
>
> I do not want to increase the max clause limit ('coz of performance issues)
>
>
> Is there any simple solution to such problem?
>
>
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Prabin
>
