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Hibernate Search version: 3.0.1.GA

Hi, i have a little question for hibernate search.
I want to search for something, and i want that the search matches subwords.
For example, if i search "Cris", and if i have indexed names, and one name is "Cristian", i want that the search shows me that result.
It can be posible? With an Analizer?

Thanks,

Cristian Ventura.

Hi Cristian,

basically there are several ways to approach this problem. The easiest way would be to just utilize wildcard queries. Unfortunately, this won't scale very well and one gets quite soon a TooManyClausesException.

Implementing a custom analyzer or FieldBridge is an alternative which I successfully used myself before. Here are some links which might help you find a solution to your problem:

* http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/54591?nohighlight=1#54591
* http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/34251?do=post_view_threaded#34251
* http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/1880#1880

Hope you find the information you are after.

--Hardy

an alternative is to use an n-gram analyzer (which is the generalized solution to your specific problem :) ). I describe it in Hibernate Search in Action.
Generally speaking, Hibernate Search 3.1 will come with a nice way to set up those kind of special analyzers (already in trunk). We reuse the Solr infrastructure.