Hey all,

I have the following in my 'Patient' class:

@CollectionOfElements
private List<String> address;

Which just stores an array of strings as an Address for a patient.

How can I make it so that Hibernate Search will index this data?

I've tried:
@CollectionOfElements
@IndexedEmbedded(depth=1)
private List<String> address;

Using Luke (http://www.getopt.org/luke/), I can see that the address is not in the field list.

I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do this, so any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
you'll have to annotate your address field with a



see http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/search/reference/en/html_single/#d0e2321 for more details;

You need to define how you would like to have all this Strings share the same field; in most cases you will just append all String components and return the appended String.

Thanks for that!

I ended up writing getSearch*() methods that returned the data I needed to get indexed, but I can see how this would be a better approach, and marking them as @Transient and @Field, and that worked well.

Unfortunately I'm on a tight deadline, so I won't have time to get into this now, but I'll keep this in mind for future work.