Hi Aleks
Yep, sorry think I was at wrong window :) .. I really have got things solved
now.
Thanks
-Amar
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Aleksander M. Stensby <
aleksander.sten...@integrasco.no> wrote:
> Hello Amar,
> the reason why people got confused from your questions is that you are
> using Hibernate Search (which is built on top of Lucene and Hibernate) to
> persist objects from your DB to lucene. So, you should really ask such
> questions on the hibernate mailing list since the indexing logic has nothing
> at all to do with Lucene (since you are using annotations).
> If you were to use Lucene directly, you would read values from you DB
> (possibly into you Entity Bean), then transform values into fields and index
> with IndexWriter. This is where Erick mentions that you could just do
> something like
> if(recipe.getChain == null) {
> //add field with value = "NULLNULLNULL"
> }else{
> ...
> // add value that we get from the chain object.
> }
>
>
> cheers,
> Aleks
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:13:20 +0100, <amar.sann...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Erick,
>>
>> ah I got the problem solved :). here is how I changed my recipe object to
>> be
>>
>> class Recipe {
>> @DocumentId
>> Integer id;
>> @Field(index = Index.TOKENIZED, name="chainName")
>> @FieldBridge(impl= ChainFieldBridge.class)
>> Chain chain;
>> }
>>
>> Here what I am trying to do is, save object to be as index field and there
>> is bridge to cross and bridge take care of how it should be indexed.
>>
>> here is code snippet from my bridge
>>
>> public void set(String pName, Object pValue, Document pDocument, Store
>> pStore,
>> Index pIndex, Float pArg5) {
>> Field lField = null;
>> if(null == pValue) {
>> lField = new Field(pName,"nullnull",pStore, pIndex);
>> pDocument.add(lField);
>> } else {
>> Chain lChain = (Chain)pValue;
>> lField = new Field(pName,lChain.getName(),pStore, pIndex);
>> pDocument.add(lField);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> so here, where chain object is null I am saving the value to be
>> "nullnull".
>> The query I would use to retrieve what is null looks like
>> "chainName:nulllnull".
>>
>> This solve everything I was looking for.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Amar
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: <amar.sann...@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:33 AM
>> Subject: Re: Lucene search problem
>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>>
>>
>> hi Erick,
>>
>> I agree lucene do not index the object. in the following example I have
>> quoted fields are indexed as chain.chainName.
>> I am able to retrieve recipe objects using FullTextQuery as
>> "chain.chainName:something' ... question is in somecase chain itself is
>> null.
>> I can be able to achieve required as below:
>>
>> class Recipe {
>> @DocumentId
>> Integer id;
>> @IndexedEmbedded
>> Chain chain = new Chain();
>> //gettter and setter
>> }
>>
>> class Chain {
>> @DocumentId
>> Integer id;
>> @Field(index = Index.TOKENIZED, name="chainName")
>> String name = "NULLNULNUL";
>> //getter and setter
>> }
>>
>> so this means to always there is will be chain along with Recipe object
>> with
>> has default name to "NULLNULNUL" and that wil be indexed..
>> We dont want to do that, Recipe is our persistence object and we hate to
>> do
>> that.
>>
>> -Amar
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> How do you intend to index these? Lucene will not
>>> index objects for you. You have to break the object
>>> down into a series of fields. At that point you can
>>> substitute whatever you want.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Erick
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:36 AM, <amar.sann...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi Aaron Schon/EricK,
>>> >
>>> > That really make sense to me but it really seems easy if is the string
>>> > object. See the object structure I have it below hopefully that gives
>>> you
>>> > some idea
>>> >
>>> > class Recipe {
>>> > @DocumentId
>>> > Integer id;
>>> > @IndexedEmbedded
>>> > Chain chain;
>>> > //gettter and setter
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > class Chain {
>>> > @DocumentId
>>> > Integer id;
>>> > @Field(index = Index.TOKENIZED, name="chainName")
>>> > String name;
>>> > //getter and setter
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > I am creating index on the recipe object. and for some recipe.m_chain
>>> would
>>> > be null. So can you tell me how do I assign the value "NULLNULNULLNULL"
>>> for
>>> > object chain in recipe.
>>> >
>>> > I also was thinking if #FieldBridge help me this way. My plan was to
>>> have
>>> > default value where chain is null as you mentioned. but it does not
>>> seems
>>> > to
>>> > work for null values.
>>> >
>>> > Please suggest
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance.
>>> > -Amar
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Aaron Schon <aaron_sc...@yahoo.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > I would second Erick's recommendation - create an arbitrary
>>> > representation
>>> > > for NULL such as "NULL" (if you are certain the term "NULL" does not
>>> > occur
>>> > > in actual docs. Alternatively, use "NULLNULNULLNULL" or something to
>>> that
>>> > > effect.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > ----- Original Message ----
>>> > > From: Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>
>>> > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> > > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:58:21 AM
>>> > > Subject: Re: Lucene search problem
>>> > >
>>> > > Try searching the mailing list archives for a fuller discussion, but
>>> > > the short answer is usually to index an unique value for your
>>> > > "null" entries, then search on that, something totally
>>> > > outrageous like, say AAABBBCCCDDDEEEFFF.
>>> > >
>>> > > Alternatively, you could create, at startup time, a
>>> > > Filter of all the docs that *do* contain terms for the
>>> > > field in question, flip the bits and use the Filter in your
>>> > > searches. (Hint: see TermDocs/TermEnum)
>>> > >
>>> > > Best
>>> > > Erick
>>> > >
>>> > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:11 AM, <amar.sann...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Hi,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I have problem with lucene search, I am quite new to this. Can some
>>> > body
>>> > > > help or just push me to who can please.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Problem what I am facing we need search for object whose attribute
>>> > > "chain"
>>> > > > contaning null, but lucene does not help indexing the null values..
>>> > > >
>>> > > > how can I achieve this, or please guide me the alternative way of
>>> doing
>>> > > > this.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Thanks in advance.
>>> > > > -Amar
>>> > > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
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>>> >
>>> >
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>>> >
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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