package org.apache.lucene.search;
/**
* Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
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* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import java.io.IOException;
/** Implements the wildcard search query. Supported wildcards are <code>*</code>, which
* matches any character sequence (including the empty one), and <code>?</code>,
* which matches any single character. Note this query can be slow, as it
* needs to iterate over all terms. In order to prevent extremely slow WildcardQueries,
* a Wildcard term must not start with one of the wildcards <code>*</code> or
* <code>?</code>.
*
* @see WildcardTermEnum
*/
public class WildcardQuery extends MultiTermQuery {
public WildcardQuery(Term term) {
super(term);
}
protected FilteredTermEnum getEnum(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
return new WildcardTermEnum(reader, getTerm());
}
}
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