As a result of changes in HSEARCH-3544 In Progress , we could potentially expose some of the query methods directly on SearchQueryContext and not force users to call toQuery for simple use cases anymore:

I.e. allow to shorten this:

searchSession.search( MyEntity.class ).asEntity()
   .predicate( ... )
   .toQuery()
   .fetch()

into this:

searchSession.search( MyEntity.class ).asEntity()
   .predicate( ... )
   .fetch() // Returns the search result directly!

Which is something we see in some popular DSLs such as jOOQ's.