/* * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you 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 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ package org.elasticsearch.index.query; import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder; import java.io.IOException; /** * 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: * <p> * 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 */ public class BoostingQueryBuilder extends QueryBuilder implements BoostableQueryBuilder<BoostingQueryBuilder> { private QueryBuilder positiveQuery; private QueryBuilder negativeQuery; private float negativeBoost = -1; private float boost = -1; public BoostingQueryBuilder() { } public BoostingQueryBuilder positive(QueryBuilder positiveQuery) { this.positiveQuery = positiveQuery; return this; } public BoostingQueryBuilder negative(QueryBuilder negativeQuery) { this.negativeQuery = negativeQuery; return this; } public BoostingQueryBuilder negativeBoost(float negativeBoost) { this.negativeBoost = negativeBoost; return this; } @Override public BoostingQueryBuilder boost(float boost) { this.boost = boost; return this; } @Override protected void doXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException { if (positiveQuery == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("boosting query requires positive query to be set"); } if (negativeQuery == null) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("boosting query requires negative query to be set"); } if (negativeBoost == -1) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("boosting query requires negativeBoost to be set"); } builder.startObject(BoostingQueryParser.NAME); builder.field("positive"); positiveQuery.toXContent(builder, params); builder.field("negative"); negativeQuery.toXContent(builder, params); builder.field("negative_boost", negativeBoost); if (boost != -1) { builder.field("boost", boost); } builder.endObject(); } }