Question

I have the following situation:

I have a person with default fields like: Name, FirstName, Phone, Email, …

A person has many languageskills, the languageskill entity has the following fields: Language, Speaking, Writing, Understanding, Mothertongue

A person has many workexperiences, with fields: Office, Description, Period, Location

How would I index something like this with Lucene.net?

The following searches could be possible:

 - FirstName:"Arno" AND LanguageSkill:(Language:"Dutch" AND Speaking:[3 TO 5])
 - FirstName:"Arno" AND WorkExperience:(Description:"Marketing")
 - FirstName:"Arno" AND WorkExperience:(Description:"Marketing" OR Description:"Sales")
 - FirstName:"Arno" AND WorkExperience:(Description:"Programmer") AND LanguageSkill:(Language:"English" AND Speaking:[3 TO 5] AND MotherTongue:"true")

Would something like this be possible in Lucene, I’ve tried flattening my relations already where a document could look like this:

Name:"Stallen"
FirstName:"Arno"
WorkExperience:"Office=Lidl Description=Sales Location=London"
WorkExperience:"Office=Abro Description=Programmer Location=London"
LanguageSkill:"Language=Dutch Speaking=3 Writing=1 Understanding=3"
LanguageSkill:"Language=Egnlish Speaking=5 Writing=4 Understanding=5 MotherTongue=true"

Answer 1

I ended up using the Java version of Lucene (3.6) which contains parent child documents. I used IKVM to generate the .net DLL out of it.