Indexing associated collection-types as part of root entity?

jeck · **Joined:** Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:57 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi,

using the Lucene integration "Hibernate Search" for a few days now ... i have to admit: i'm really impressed about the smooth integration and such an easy way to process lucene-queries / retrieve results as managed objects... and now the question ;-)

Is it possible to index one or more properties of a associated collection type as part of the root-entity-index? (i want to retrieve always and only the root entity) the children are instances from a small class with a few string-properties whose inclusion at the fulltext-search for parent-entities is important ...

It seems to me that i am am looking for a combination of a

Code:

@ManyToMany
@IndexedEmbedded

which is currently not suported?!... is there any way to achieve the desired behaviour?

Many thanks in advance and many greetings
jens

emmanuel · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:57 pm

I think you can write a custom @FieldBridge for that. There is no out of the box experience today though.

But I am curious about your usecase, can you detail it? What is your query? how you expect HSearch to store the "collection" of elements in the index?

emmanuel · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:05 pm

OK, now it's out of the box :-)
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH-40