[hibernate-dev] [infinispan-dev] [HSearch] DSL for Lucene queries (was: Re: Query module new

[Manik Surtani]

On 28 Sep 2009, at 10:08, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:

>
> On 28 sept. 09, at 10:48, Manik Surtani wrote:
>
>>
>> On 27 Sep 2009, at 11:26, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>
>>> Next version of Lucene will provide helpers and tools to make it  
>>> easy
>>> to create your own QueryParser, so that everyone can make his one
>>> based on business-specific needs
>>> (Everybody can already, but is not as easy).
>>> So I would avoid reinventing that, and focus on a good API.
>>>
>>> To make this API very cool IMHO it should integrate with Hibernate
>>> Search to exploit all knowledge about object mapping, declarative
>>> Analyzer and Filter definitions, and so on...
>>> We concluded in another thread that to make best use of this
>>> information we need to give the type of what you're searching for
>>> as a
>>> parameter, so that from the specific
>>> mapping the analyzers, fields and fieldbridges can be matched.
>>> Should be fine, it means we can provide typesafe results?
>>
>> Are you suggesting that this is made to be specific to Hibernate
>> Search, rather than more generic, for Lucene?  As far as Infinispan  
>> is
>> concerned I couldn't care either way since we just depend on HS.
>
> Yes, if you check the thread history we've discussed the benefits of
> tying the DSL to Hibernate Search's metadata. We could basically save
> a lot of pain points like analyzers and type conversion for users (and
> we can't if we stay pure Lucene based).

Yup, makes sense.

Cheers
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Manik Surtani
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