All,

I'm in the process of implementing a search for a web application using hibernate search (probably that's why I end up at this forum) and have a question about how to implement/configure it. We want to have a single field which has to be matched against information which is stored in different fields in the lucene index. In the former web application we had just one field which contained the searchable data. The @Field annotation places everything in a field of the same name as the property.
So what to do, should I some how create an extra field containing all the searchable information or is there some other way to search over all fields at once?

Hi,

Using the @Fields annotation you can specify multiple Lucene fields for a single class attribute. You can change the field name, which analyzer to use, whether the field should be tokenized, etc
This in particular useful when you want to store the field once as is (eg for sorting) and once analyzed.

--Hardy