Hi,

I am looking for doing a generic search on all the fields that are available (something similiar to what google does). Is there any way to default include all possible fields in the document rather than mentioning explicitly which field to look for in all the documents.

Like in the example below, while creating a searchQuery I mention it like "firstName:TEST"; . This means if I had 20 fields in document, I would have to do this for all fields, which I want to avoid.

public static List<Contact> search() {
//Building the Lucene query

String searchQuery = "firstName:TEST"; //query string
QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(
"firstName", //default field
new StandardAnalyzer() //analyzer used
);

org.apache.lucene.search.Query luceneQuery;
try {
luceneQuery = parser.parse(searchQuery); //build Lucene query
}
catch (ParseException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Unable to parse query: " + searchQuery, e);
}

Session session = SessionHolder.getSession();
FullTextSession ftSession = org.hibernate.search.Search.getFullTextSession(session);
Query query = ftSession.createFullTextQuery(luceneQuery, Contact.class);

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
final List<Contact> results = query.list(); //execute the query
System.out.println("results.size() " + results.size());
for (Iterator iterator = results.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
Contact name = (Contact) iterator.next();
System.out.println(name.getFirstName() + " || "+ name.getLastName() + " || " + name.getEmail());
}
return results;
}


Thanks in advance.

--Manoj

Just don't include a field specifically. Also use a MultiFieldQueryParser instead of just a QueryParser.



And your Lucene query should look like: "TEST"

Thanks mate. It was really helpfull.

--Manoj