[hibernate-dev] [hsearch] JSON version of Hibernate Search query

[Gunnar Morling]

2013/6/13 Hardy Ferentschik <hardy at hibernate.org>

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> On 13 Jan 2013, at 8:47 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
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> > Would creating a "real" query language instead of a serialized object
> > representation make sense then?
>
> You mean the Lucene query language -
> http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html;-)
> In the end it comes down to that.
>

Maybe, if that has everything needed, why not? Or is a goal to hide the
fact that Lucene is used underneath?

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> What would the purpose of a new query language be? I guess it would be
> more object centric, but is this relevant for a user?
>

What's the purpose of the JSON notation? I think for a user its nicer to
express a query in a dedicated query language instead of a general-purpose
object serialization format. As it is nicer for a human to express queries
in say HQL or SQL instead of describing e.g. a "HQL object" in JSON or XML.
If this is going to be used by application code, it probably doesn't make a
big difference.

I guess I just don't yet really understand what's the use case behind.


> > This would allow for a conciser syntax, making it easier to write (that's
> > why I asked who would be writing such queries), but probably it'd be more
> > work to create such a language. I guess a sub-set of JPQL would work for
> > some parts, but additional elements would be needed for facets etc.
>
> I just don't see users of a finished app being exposed to such query
> functionality.
> I see the JSON representation just as a way to serialise the query. To
> which means I am not sure at the moment.
>

> --Hardy