This project gives fluent style API to Lucene.Net. The primary purpose of which is to make Lucene a little less verbose to accomplish most tasks whilst retaining the power and speed of Lucene. It has been designed with the goal with driving the existing lucene API, and keeping the abstraction to a minimum.

More complete documentation can be found in the wiki which can be found here: https://github.com/cardinal252/Lucinq/wiki

• A fluent style api for working with lucene queries for most of the query types and grouping.
• Paging
• Sorting
• Query manipulation - remove terms and re-run for example.
• Collecting

You can find the Nuget Package here: http://nuget.org/packages/Lucinq/

PM> Install-Package Lucinq

Further examples can be found in the integration tests, however here is a quick overview of how the syntax looks

LuceneSearch search = new LuceneSearch(indexPath));

IQueryBuilder query = new QueryBuilder();

query.Term("field", "value");
query.Or
	(
		x => x.Term("_name", "work"),
		x => x.Term("_name", "text")
	);

LuceneSearchResult result = search.Execute(query.Build(), 20);	
foreach (Document document in result.GetTopDocuments())
{
	Console.WriteLine(document.GetValues("field")[0]);
}

OR

LuceneSearch search = new LuceneSearch(indexPath));

IQueryBuilder query = new IQueryBuilder();

query.Setup(
	x => x.Term("field", "value"),
	x => x.Or
			(
				y => y.Term("_name", "work"),
				y => y.Term("_name", "text")
			)
);

LuceneSearchResult results = search.Execute(query.Build(), 20);	
foreach (Document document in result.GetTopDocuments())
{
	Console.WriteLine(document.GetValues("field")[0]);
}

The intention at present is to allow the use of raw lucene with a view to writing overlays for Sitecore and potentially umbraco.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.