[hibernate-dev] Search 5 migration pains: MultiFieldQueryParser and Numeric Fields

As reported on SO [1], it's not a straight forward migration for those who embraced the convenience of using a MultiFieldQueryParser, or one of the other Lucene provided parsers. In the specific example, I think the right answer would be to use the programmatic API or our DSL.. but let's consider the use case in which you want to parse user input, from a text input in your application? Using the parser is quite convenient in such a case, as people can express boolean operators and field names, while keeping the UI very simple. Wouldn't it be nice to have a custom "parser" in our DSL, which essentially mimicks the functionality of the MultiFieldQueryParser but takes advantage of our indexing metadata - like we do for the HQL Parser? Sanne 1 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28138308/hibernate-search-5-0-numeric-...