Re: [hibernate-dev] [Wildcard] Search: changing the way we search

And why is it not ideal: 3/ wildcard and analyzers are really a pain with Lucene and you need to implement your own cleaning stuff to get a working wildcard query. IV. About wildcard queries -------------------------------------- Let's say it frankly: wildcard queries are a pain in Lucene. Let's take an example: - You index "Parking" and you have a LowerCaseFilter so your index contains "parking"; - You search for Parking without wildcard, it will work; - You search for Parki* with wildcard, yeah, it won't work. This is due to the fact that for wildcards, the analyzers are ignored. Usually, because if you use ? or *, they can be replaced by the filters you use in your analyzers. While we all understand the Lucene point of view from a technical perspective, I don't think we can keep this position for Hibernate Search as a user friendly search framework on top of Hibernate. At Open Wide, we have a quite complex method which rewrites a search as a working autocompletion search which might work most of the time (with a high value of most...). It's kinda ugly, far from perfect and I'm wondering if we could have something more clever in Search. I once talked with Emmanuel about having different analyzers for Indexing, Querying (this is the Solr way) and Wildcards/Fuzzy search (this is IMHO a good idea as the way you want to normalize your wildcard query highly depends on the analyzer used to index your data).