# ES equivalent of lucene SpanNearQuery.Builder.addGap(int)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-equivalent-of-lucene-spannearquery-builder-addgap-int/112204>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-equivalent-of-lucene-spannearquery-builder-addgap-int/112204 "2017-12-18T10:24:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![chandan\_singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@chandan\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandan_singh)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-equivalent-of-lucene-spannearquery-builder-addgap-int/112204/1 "2017-12-18T10:24:04Z")

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Lucene's SpanNearQuery.Builder.addGap(int) serves an important search criteria. Especially with slop=0, it acts as arbitrary gap between two clauses just like the gaps created by removal of stop words in a phrase search. ES does not provide a similar Java API. Infact, even the lucene's way of introducing a gap in phrase search by PhraseQuery.Builder.add(Term term, int gap), used after filtering stop words, is missing in ES. Have I overlooked any existing ES way of introducing such behaviour?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-equivalent-of-lucene-spannearquery-builder-addgap-int/112204/2 "2018-01-15T10:24:28Z")

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