Hi,

Could I please ask for advice about instantiation of Analyzers (for hibernate search).

1) I wanted to invoke the parametrized constructor: new SnowballAnalyzer(version, name).
I couldn't find an elegant way to do it...
@Analyzer(impl=classname) doesn't receive constructor parameters.
@AnalyzerDef works, but the examples I see are cumbersome:

While I just wanted simple the defaults of SnowballAnalyzer... Is there no elegant way for hibernate search to invoke a parametrized constructor?
Of course I can wrap SnowballAnalyzer with my own Analyzer, with no-arg consturctor... but it's not elegant.

2) If I do settle for @AnalyzerDef, does it have be be declared on a specific Entity?
What if I want this analyzer to be shared for all entities?

Thanks very much :)

What's elegant? Do you have something in mind. Using @AnalyzerDefname is there to allow you to configure your analyzers via annotations in a generic form (including passing parameters). If you have some better ideas let us know.


No, analyzer definitions are global. You can define it on any entity and use it from any

Thanks, and no offense meant - I deeply appreciate the design of hibernate search, and learned a lot from it :)

I just wonder why @AnalyzerDef forces me to dive into the "Filters" level... sometimes I need such control, but sometimes I just want "new SnowballAnalyzer(version, name)"... this constructor was provided exactly so that users can get started with reasonable defaults, without having to wonder "Should StopWords be filtered before or after Lowercase conversion? Have I forgotten anything else?"...

I would have been glad to (also) have the option to call parametrized constructors (or factory methods), something in the lines of
@Analyzer (impl="SnowballAnalyzer" params={Version.30, "English"})

Thanks anyway.