Hi,

I just started integrating hibernate-search in the project I'm working on, and we have some special requirements, but I'm not quite sure if this is natively supported in hibernate-search.

We are processing our configuration properties (from for example hibernate.properties) during the startup phase of our application and do some checks and stuff like that. In some cases we have some special cases when we are running tests, to override whatever was set in the properties file.

So my question is, does hibernate-search have any way to set/alter the properties in hibernate.properties after the application starts?

I see there is a way to define different indexes like hibernate.search.<customIndex>.directory_provider, but I don't think I can use that, unless I can change which of these indexes should be used by all entities being indexed.

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Hi,
we can not "alter" the configuration properties, as in some environments they might be read only. For example, some properties might have been set via environment variables.

What can be done is to interpret the configuration properties differently, ignore them or override them, but how to do such things would depend on what you want to accomplish.

For example, you might want to implement a custom DirectoryProvider, and have all your entities (and indexes) use your version by default:



Your my.own.DirectoryProviderImplementation could extend or decorate one of the ones in Hibernate Search, and read / override additional configuration properties as you prefer.

You mentioned testing needs. If you're integrating it in some custom framework, you might want to see org.hibernate.search.cfg.spi.SearchConfiguration; that can be used for fully customizing the boostrap of the Hibernate Search engine; it's more work to use it but you would be able to fully control/set each configuration property as you want, and customize many more internal components.