Hibernate search non case sensitive order

Hibernate Search
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When I try to use Hibernate search(5.9.1.Final) to sort the results, for example, name, the results was shown up with Uppercase first and Lowercase Second, like

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which does not make sense.

Code for entity annotation:

@Column(nullable = false, length = 50)
    @Fields({
            @Field(name = "firstName", index = Index.YES, analyze = Analyze.YES, analyzer = @Analyzer(definition = "nameAnalyzer")),
            @Field(name = "dummyFieldToAddQueryAnalyzer", index = Index.YES, analyze = Analyze.YES, analyzer = @Analyzer(definition = "nameAnalyzer_query"), bridge = @FieldBridge(impl = DummyStringBridge.class)),
            @Field(name = "firstName_sorted", analyze = Analyze.NO, store = Store.NO)
    })
    @SortableField(forField = "firstName_sorted")
    private String firstName;

The sort method, I use query builder like

    return qb.sort().byField(sortBy).desc().createSort();

Is there a way to change the sort order so that the lowercase letter has an equivalent sort order value than the uppercase letter.

2

You need to use a normalizer on your “firstName_sorted” field, and convert the name to lowercase in that normalizer.

Something like this:

// ==================================================
// HERE, add a normalizer definition, either like this or using programmatic definitions (see the links I give below)
// ==================================================
@NormalizerDef(
		name = "sortNormalizer",
		filters = {
			@TokenFilterDef(factory = ASCIIFoldingFilterFactory.class), // To handle diacritics such as "é"
			@TokenFilterDef(factory = LowerCaseFilterFactory.class)
		}
)
public class MyEntity {

 // ...

    @Column(nullable = false, length = 50)
    @Fields({
            @Field(name = "firstName", index = Index.YES, analyze = Analyze.YES, analyzer = @Analyzer(definition = "nameAnalyzer")),
            @Field(name = "dummyFieldToAddQueryAnalyzer", index = Index.YES, analyze = Analyze.YES, analyzer = @Analyzer(definition = "nameAnalyzer_query"), bridge = @FieldBridge(impl = DummyStringBridge.class)),
            // ===================================================
            // HERE, assign the normalizer and don't forget to enable analysis
            // ===================================================
            @Field(name = "firstName_sorted", analyze = Analyze.YES, normalizer = @Normalizer(name = "sortNormalizer"), store = Store.NO)
    })
    @SortableField(forField = "firstName_sorted")
    private String firstName;

 // ...
}

You can find all the necessary information in the documentation:

EDIT: You will need to reindex in order for these changes to be taken into account.

3

Thanks you for your help!!!
It works