[hibernate-dev] [Search] Spatial still experimental

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 16 Jan 2013, at 08:32, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org> wrote:

> - spatial as a name is a bit fuzzy, should we change it? I tend to use
>  geolocation maybe geoquery when I try to explain the notion.

not sure. IMO spatial is the right term. I find relocation less appealing, but better than geoquery which
gets a -1 

> - in the DSL should we rename onCoordinates with onCoordinatesField or
>  even onSpatialField?

+1 for on spatialField

> - I frequently makes the mistake of writing my spatial query without
>  setting up the index. We might want to try and make that error message
>  as descriptove as possible.

+1

> - Lucene 4 comes with the notion of spatial queries supporting shapes.
>  We should experiment with the DSL to see if that notion can be safely
>  added. (I think it does at least on the DSL side).

+1

—hardy