Is it possible to get the custom composite Analyzer used by Hibernate Search for a particular entity? I have an entity that uses different analyzers for different fields, and I'm assuming that it creates some sort of composite Analyzer behind the scenes so that field names map to the field's actual analyzer. It would make my life a lot easier if I could get that composite analyzer for use on the query side.
Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Even though Hibernate Search constructs a so called ScopedAnalyzer for each entity containing a hashmap of analyzers there is currently no way to get hold of this class and it also does not have a public API to access this map.

Have a look at Lucene's PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper. This class allows you to wrap multiple analyzers into a single class. You could implement your own instance of this class and set it on class level:



You could even define a global analyzer which handles even fields across multiple entities. I've used this approach multiple times and was quite happy with it.

--Hardy

That is what I suspected. Well, life would certainly be much easier if I could get that ScopedAnalyzer. Any hope of access to this being added to the API?

I've added something slightly different in HSearch 3.1
I defined the notion of named analyzer and the API to access an analyzer by name.