[hibernate-dev] Hibernate Search and Bobo Browse

[Hardy Ferentschik]

Hi,

sounds interesting. I think I came across bobo-browse when investigating  
possible solutions
for faceting implementations.
If you are just after the underlying Lucene resources, like the  
IndexReader, you can get hold
of it via SearchFactory.getReaderProvider(). In order to open the reader  
you will have to pass
a DirectoryProvider (also accessible via the SearchFactory). Have a look  
in the online documentation.

Of course this is all quite low level and a better integration would  
probably make use of some of
the meta data provided by the framework.

I guess in the end you would like to configure the facets in the  
FullTextQuery.

It would probably also be good if the integration would be optional so  
that you only need to add additional
libraries if you want to use bobo browse.

We can help you some more, if you explain in more detail how you think  
this should work and what you
need from the HSearch side.

--Hardy


On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:03:12 +0200, Marc Schipperheyn  
<m.schipperheyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest an integration of Hibernate Search with Bobo  
> Browse
> (http://code.google.com/p/bobo-browse/). Bobo Browse is the open source
> faceting engine developed by LinkedIn and AFAIC it's amazing. Even though
> the documentation is sparse, the results are easy to achieve, flexible  
> and
> extremely fast.
>
> It has one caveat, it relies on another open source project: Zoie to  
> achieve
> real time updated index/search results as by default it just opens an
> IndexReader and is oblivious to changes in the underlying index until
> reopened.
>
> I've been looking at a way to have Hibernate Search manage the  
> interaction
> with the Index in order for Bobo to have updated results as the  
> underlying
> index changes (just like Zoie does). But frankly, I'm not too good at  
> this
> lower level stuff.
>
> Anyway, would love to see this integration happen or some pointers on  
> good
> ways how to achieve this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
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