## org.apache.lucene.search
Class BoostingQuery

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.search.Query
          org.apache.lucene.search.BoostingQuery

All Implemented Interfaces:
  Serializable, Cloneable

    public class BoostingQuery

extends org.apache.lucene.search.Query

The BoostingQuery class can be used to effectively demote results that match a given query. Unlike the "NOT" clause, this still selects documents that contain undesirable terms, but reduces their overall score: Query balancedQuery = new BoostingQuery(positiveQuery, negativeQuery, 0.01f); In this scenario the positiveQuery contains the mandatory, desirable criteria which is used to select all matching documents, and the negativeQuery contains the undesirable elements which are simply used to lessen the scores. Documents that match the negativeQuery have their score multiplied by the supplied "boost" parameter, so this should be less than 1 to achieve a demoting effect This code was originally made available here: [WWW] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lucene-user&m=108058407130459&w=2 and is documented here: http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/CommunityContributions

See Also:
  Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
`BoostingQuery(org.apache.lucene.search.Query match, org.apache.lucene.search.Query context, float boost)`

Method Summary
`boolean` `equals(Object obj)`
`int` `hashCode()`
`org.apache.lucene.search.Query` `rewrite(org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader reader)`
`String` `toString(String field)`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.Query
`clone, combine, createWeight, extractTerms, getBoost, getSimilarity, mergeBooleanQueries, setBoost, toString, weight`

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

Constructor Detail

### BoostingQuery

    public BoostingQuery(org.apache.lucene.search.Query match,
                         org.apache.lucene.search.Query context,
                         float boost)

Method Detail

### rewrite

    public org.apache.lucene.search.Query rewrite(org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader reader)
                                           throws IOException

  Overrides:
    `rewrite` in class `org.apache.lucene.search.Query`
  Throws:
    `IOException`

### hashCode

    public int hashCode()

  Overrides:
    `hashCode` in class `org.apache.lucene.search.Query`

### equals

    public boolean equals(Object obj)

  Overrides:
    `equals` in class `org.apache.lucene.search.Query`

### toString

    public String toString(String field)

  Specified by:
    `toString` in class `org.apache.lucene.search.Query`