Hi,

I just wanted to verify that i need a reference to the parent in order to get the full auto indexing behavior.

For example:

I want to be able to search Items with a particular User.

I have an Indexed Entity called Item that has a User property. The User property (in Item) has the IndexedEmbedded annotation and the User entity class is marked as Embeddable.

When i add and remove users to my Item class, the index updates fine. I need the index to be updated when an User's name(or whatever) changes. Do i absolutely need to have a reference back to the Item (marked as ContainedIn) in my User Entity?
I know i can manually update the index when someone changes a User's name, but it would be awesome to have this done automatically for me. Is there another work around?

Thanks,

If you want fully functional autoindexing functionality for the Item class you need the @ContainedIn in User. Otherwise you only get index updates when the indexed entity changes not the User.

--Hardy