Hmm, Im probably in trouble but I have to ask anyway.

Went through tons of fields and classes and created xml style mappings for hibernate. Now I want to add hibernate-search annotations.

The reference manual states you can use .hbm.xml mappings but it doesn't actually say you can mix on the same class.

Sooo, if I can have my persistence mapping in xml and my search index annotations as annotation, how would I do it??

My deadline is awfully close PLEASE somebody throw me a lifeline ...

Arne

Hi Arne,

using xml mapping files together with Hibernate Search annotations should work just fine. The examples in the documentation use annotation to configure your persitence classes, but this is not a requirement.

Just add @Indexed to the classes you want to index. For each indexed class you need at least one @DocumentId and of course you have to annotate all fields you want to end up in the index with @Field.

On top of this you have to add two properties two your hibernate configuration file, namely hibernate.search.default.directory_provider and hibernate.search.default.indexBase.

See also http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/search/reference/en/html_single/#d0e137.

Just give it a go and post again in case it does not work.

Good luck.

--Hardy

Hello,

First off all thanks for reading my question and answering.

I have done exactly what you said, but nothing seemed to happen, thats why I got desperate and posted. There is no log4j debug output, no file generated in the directory I gave (tried windows style C:\tmp\lucene and Unix style /c:/tmp/lucene but maybe thats the problem?) but anyway, no error message

Im not quite sure who is actually processing the annotations. I configure using the normal new Configuration().addClass().getSessionFactory() style

Do I need the hibernate-commons-annotation.jar? Currently it seems to run without actually needing it ...

Ok, a few hours into it and the solution is:

Instead of using
etc

you have to say
etc

Im not quite sure why this is working, but index files are now created :-)


The hibernate annotation is still in the xml file and is still read,
but now the search annotations are picked up as well.

Arne