[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HSEARCH-917) DSL API doesn't build the correct Lucene query

From my experience with Hibernate Search, a lot of people are mistaken about how matching() works so it might be a good idea to give them an hint in the API.

DSL API doesn't build the correct Lucene query ---------------------------------------------- Key: HSEARCH-917 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-917 Project: Hibernate Search Issue Type: Bug Components: query Affects Versions: 3.4.1.Final Reporter: Guillaume Smet Priority: Critical Hi, A bit of context: We are early adopters of Hibernate Search and we have very few problems with it (except the @IndexEmbedded problem we helped to fix in 3.4.1, no problem so far). When the DSL API was introduced, I tried it and I found the problem I describe below. I decided to use the QueryParser API (and the MultiFieldQueryParser API) as a workaround. The fact is that: * we use Hibernate Search in every application we have, now; * the DSL API is really nice and, as we introduced QueryDSL in our application, we now use a lot of DSL like API and I would like to be able to use Hibernate Search API too; * I thought it was a deliberate choice but, recently I found an example so weird, I can't think it's the wanted behaviour. So this problem isn't new and it exists since the first version of the DSL API. Now, the description of the problem: * we use the following analyzer to index a field in our entity: {code} @AnalyzerDef(name = HibernateSearchAnalyzer.TEXT, tokenizer = @TokenizerDef(factory = WhitespaceTokenizerFactory.class), filters = { @TokenFilterDef(factory = ASCIIFoldingFilterFactory.class), @TokenFilterDef(factory = WordDelimiterFilterFactory.class, params = { @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "generateWordParts", value = "1"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "generateNumberParts", value = "1"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "catenateWords", value = "0"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "catenateNumbers", value = "0"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "catenateAll", value = "0"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "splitOnCaseChange", value = "0"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "splitOnNumerics", value = "0"), @org.hibernate.search.annotations.Parameter(name = "preserveOriginal", value = "1") } ), @TokenFilterDef(factory = LowerCaseFilterFactory.class) } ), {code} * the content of the field is something like XXXX-AAAA-HAGYU-19910 * if you search for an exact match "XXXX-AAAA-HAGYU-19910" with the QueryParser, you have a few results: namely the results which have all the different parts (XXXX, AAAA, HAGYU and 19910) in any order. That's the behaviour I expect considering my analyzer. * if you search using the DSL API, you have ALL the results containing at least ONE token so A LOT of results in our case. My expectation is that the DSL API should work as the Lucene parser works and it should return the same results. The problem is that in ConnectedMultiFieldsTermQueryBuilder, we don't use the QueryParser to build the Lucene query but a getAllTermsFromText() method which uses the analyzer to get all the terms and from that we build a OR query. So when I search for XXXX-AAAA-HAGYU-19910, the DSL API searches for "XXXX" OR "AAAA" OR "HAGYU" OR "19910". I really think it's a mistake and that we should use the *QueryParser API to build the Lucene Query and have the correct behaviour. If needed, I can provide any further information and/or a test case. I just want to be sure you consider it a bug before working further on this. Otherwise I'll stick to using the *QueryParser API. Thanks for your feedback.