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From: Erik Hatcher <erik@ehatchersolutions.com>
Subject: Re: Question on queryparser code from Lucene
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:54:43 -0500
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On 13 Nov 2005, at 13:39, Eugene Ezekiel wrote:

> I got this nagging problem that I can't figure out in the source  
> code of Lucene.
>
> In the file org/apache/lucene/queryParser/QueryParser.java,
> there's a method called parse that returns a Query (see below):
>
>   public Query parse(String query) throws ParseException {
>     ReInit(new FastCharStream(new StringReader(query)));
>     try {
>       return Query(field);
>     }
>
> I don't understand the return statement,
> (i) how do we return without instantiation?
> (ii) the Query class doesn't have a constructor that is Query(String)?

:)

     Query(field) in this case is a method call.

Erik


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