[hibernate-dev] Feature Proposal for Hibernate Search

Emmanuel Bernard emmanuel at hibernate.org
Mon Feb 3 16:04:14 EST 2014


The example API I was thinking about is
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/manual/en-US/html_single/#querycriteria-examples

> On 3 févr. 2014, at 21:57, Martin Braun <martinbraun123 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> HI Emmanuel,
> Hi Martin,
> 
> > That's interesting. I have a couple of questions for you.
> > What is the notion of profile and when would you use it?
> This can be used when you'd like to be able to use the same queryBean in different contexts
> sou you don't have to write a different Bean if you only need a query that's a little bit different.
> > When do you need and use sub query ids?
> This is needed if you want to do queries like this (explained in boolean-logic):
> (queryA && (!queryB || queryC)).
> You can get as complicated as you want with this. These SubQueries are mainly used because
> Java doesn't allow recursiveness in Annotations.
> > The issue you had was to map getters to query parameters in an easier way than 
> > currently possible, correct? It reminds me a little bit of the Example query 
> > with a parameter twist. 
> Which one are you talking about?
> > I have to admit, I am a bit skeptical on a few things:
> > - having to extend a technical class
> I am too, As stated in the e-mail before I want to get away from that design but I still
> want to be able to write queries myself if I want to. This can be done with Annotations on
> Method-Level or with QueryProviders in an extra Annotation on the Type-Level.
> > - I don't think annotations are the best way to express queries but you probably 
> > have your reasons, so let's discuss them :)
> Why? I think it's not hard to read an you have the query right with your ParameterWrapper-class which holds your data.
> > Have you explored the ability to write the query programmatically while still 
> > making use of the getter binding? I can imagine we could update the DSL to 
> > accept the parameters holder and have them injected.
> I think that would be possible, but then you would still have to handle the
> query nesting and such by hand and that code would be more complicated to use (but easier to debug, tbh).
> > I wonder if literally an Example API would address your use cases ?
> What do you mean by that?
> Martin Braun
> martinbraun123 at aol.com
> www.github.com/s4ke
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
> To: Martin Braun <martinbraun123 at aol.com>
> Cc: hibernate-dev <hibernate-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:45 pm
> Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Feature Proposal for Hibernate Search
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> That's interesting. I have a couple of questions for you.
> 
> What is the notion of profile and when would you use it?
> 
> When do you need and use sub query ids?
> 
> The issue you had was to map getters to query parameters in an easier way than 
> currently possible, correct? It reminds me a little bit of the Example query 
> with a parameter twist. 
> 
> I have to admit, I am a bit skeptical on a few things:
> - having to extend a technical class
> - I don't think annotations are the best way to express queries but you probably 
> have your reasons, so let's discuss them :)
> 
> Have you explored the ability to write the query programmatically while still 
> making use of the getter binding? I can imagine we could update the DSL to 
> accept the parameters holder and have them injected. 
> 
> I wonder if literally an Example API would address your use cases ?
> 
> Thanks the first thoughts
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
> > On 3 févr. 2014, at 19:08, Martin Braun <martinbraun123 at aol.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > I am currently working on a new way to query in Hibernate Search. It's not 
> finished, but
> > it already works. I am planning on extending the functionality a lot in the 
> future and
> > I thought this could be a nice addition to Hibernate Search. What do you 
> think?
> > 
> > 
> > https://github.com/s4ke/HibernateSearchQueryExtension
> > 
> > 
> > Martin Braun
> > martinbraun123 at aol.com
> > www.github.com/s4ke
> > 
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