Negate a Query Constraint

You can use the negate() method to invert any constraint in an HstQuery. This allows you to exclude results that match a specific condition.

For example, to retrieve documents that do not contain the term "hippo":

// Query documents that do not contain "hippo"
final HstQuery query = HstQueryBuilder.create(scope)
        .ofTypes(BaseDocument.class)
        .limit(10)
        .where(constraint(".").contains("hippo").negate())
        .build();
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In this example, the negate() method inverts the .contains("hippo") constraint. The query returns up to 10 documents of type BaseDocument that do not contain the word "hippo".