Custom similarty: get query length within the score function

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I'm trying to develop a KL divergence similarities function for elasticsearch 5.1.1.

To do so, i created a KLDivergenceSimilarity.java which extends the LMSimilarity
see github link to KLDivergenceSimilarity.java

My question: how can I get the query length?
for example: if the user submit "heart attack" the query length that i need is 2.

I know there is a maxOverlap which contain the total number of terms in the query, but how can I access it from my score function in KLDivergenceSimilarity.java file?

alternatively, I saw lucene has axiomatic similarity function that accept query length as a setting parameter. If I use such approach, is there anyway that i can change the similarity setting on the fly without closing and reopening my index?

Thank you

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