This question is probably best for the Lucene user community but I thought I would try here first.

I have been using hibernate core for a long time. Now I am need of Full Text Search and am very excited about Hibernate Search.

However, I am little confused on exactly how it works in my situation.

I have a Business object that has lots of different attributes that need to be searched upon (products, services, categories, associations, etc)

I have created the index for Businesses and followed the example programs. Now I am trying to get FTS to work. However, what I am confused on is how to create the query to search against all of these attributes.

Do I need to list in the lucene query something like:

services='value' or products='value' or associations='value' or name='value'

or is there a way to send in 'value' that automatically looks at all the available indexed attributes?


Thanks in advance,

- Doug

It is currently not possible "automatically", you have to list which fields should be enabled for you search.
Lucene's MultiFieldQueryParser is a good helper for this situations, the book is full of examples about it.

which book are you referring to?

Thanks for the quick reply!

never mind...I see above that you were talking about HSiA

I will take a look at it!