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

Many thanks in advance and many greetings
jens

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?

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