Hi all,

i have a hard thing; i need index a class, that contains some fulltext searchable properties. I annotate them with


But now, there is also a field (part of its composite primary key) containing strings like "CAN-RT-2213".

What do I have to do so that a search request for "CAN-RT-2213" brings this result and if he searches for "CAN-RT" this should also work ?
Currently I just replace the "-" by a space but that brings way too much results.

In addition - how to i enable to boostfactor within the search results ? I have it defined in my class but it does not seem to get applied.

that's because the query is using "OR" on the different terms; see this post.


if you know that's the format, you could write a custom bridge and use three different fields where you add it like this:

when you parse a query, you select the field to be searched on according to the format of the searchstring; this should perform very well as it's an exact match on a single term. There's a similar bridge in the examples of reference documentation dealing with day, month, year parts.

Another approach is to split them in different fields:

In this case you can apply some cool trick using filters to have partial result caching.