@Component
public class ActiveArticleFilterFactory {
   
   @Factory
   public Filter getFilter() {
      //some additional steps to cache the filter results per IndexReader
        Filter activeArticleFilter = new ActiveArticleFilter();
        return new CachingWrapperFilter(activeArticleFilter);
   }

}

public class ActiveArticleFilter extends Filter {
   
    /**
    * Generated Serial ID
    */
   private static final long serialVersionUID = -4677423449624112706L;

   public DocIdSet getDocIdSet(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
        OpenBitSet bitSet = new OpenBitSet( reader.maxDoc() );
        TermDocs termDocs = reader.termDocs( new Term( "article.active", "0" ) );
        while ( termDocs.next() ) {
            bitSet.set( termDocs.doc() );
        }
        return bitSet;
    }
}

@Component
public class SearchHandler {
   
   @Autowired ArticleHandler articleHandler = null;
   
   public HashMap<String,List<?>> basicSearch(String searchString) throws ParseException, ObjectNotFoundException {
      
      List<Article> articles = new ArrayList<Article>();
      List<User> users = new ArrayList<User>();
      
      FullTextSession fullTextSession = Search.getFullTextSession(HibernateSessionFactory.getSession());
         
      // create native Lucene query
      String[] fields = new String[]{"articleTitle", "articleText", "firstName", "lastName", "gamerTag", "active"};
      MultiFieldQueryParser parser = new MultiFieldQueryParser(fields, new StandardAnalyzer());
      org.apache.lucene.search.Query query = parser.parse(searchString);

      // wrap Lucene query in a org.hibernate.Query
      FullTextQuery hibQuery = fullTextSession.createFullTextQuery(query, Article.class, User.class);
      
      hibQuery.enableFullTextFilter("notActive");

      // execute search
      List<?> resultList = hibQuery.list();
      
      for (Object object : resultList) {
         
         if (object instanceof Article) {
            articles.add((Article)object);
         }
         
         if (object instanceof User) {
            users.add((User)object);
         }
      }
      
      HashMap<String,List<?>> results = new HashMap<String, List<?>>();
      
      results.put("Articles", articleHandler.trimArticleText(articles));
      results.put("Users", users);
       
      HibernateSessionFactory.getSession().close();
      
      return results;
      
   }

}