Hi there,

i got a bunch of indexed classes and now tryin to figure out how to query the index. As i have seen, i have to determine the class type which i am searching for, but i wanna enable my users to search simultaneously over all indexed objects. Do i have to build a query like:

object1:foo OR object2:foo OR object3:foo OR object4:foo ... OR object1337:foo

or is there a more efficient way to build a query that will search the index the way i want it to?

grmpf, didnt see that there is a multifieldqueryparser, seems that this is the one thing i was looking for.

Hi,

if you are only interested in filtering on Class type, then you can use FulltextSession.createFullTextQuery((org.apache.lucene.search.Query luceneQuery, Class<?>... entities)

If you don't provide any class parameter for this method all indexes are searched. If you provide one or more entity types the result will be limited to these types.
This is in-depended of MultiFieldQueryParser. You use this parser if you want to search across different indexed fields.

--Hardy

ok, after working through the multifieldqueryparser in the book, i realised, that this one just do the search over different classes. The org.hibernate.search.FulltextQuery still needs an specific class in its arguments, thats not the way i want it.

I just wanna enable my user, to enter a search term, which is applys to all my indexed classes and then i wanna return a list of all possible results to him, not depending on which type of class they are. Is this possible?

Where do you have to specify a class in FullTextQuery?
The way to filter on classes is at construction time of the query:

where entities is a vararg parameter, meaning you don't have to specify any class at all which is equivalent to searching over all indexed entities.

--Hardy

Thx for your reply, all my fault, didnt see the method call with just the query as its arguments. Problem solved.