Hi

I am encountering a problem and i was wondering if I could get some help. Basically I have a object called Risk and an Object called Contract. The contract has some transient fields that are set by some external source. What I am trying to do is set the values on the transient fields onn contract and index the Risk object (by the way Contract is set as @IndexEmbedded on Risk and Risk has @ContainedIn in Contract).

The problem I am finding is that the values from the transient fields are not set even though the store strategy is YES. Basically I am doing something like this:



The Util class basically takes the Lucene Doucment from a different source and copies the relevant feilds to the transient fields on the contract. After indexing the Risk I try to look for the fields in the document but don't see any. Am i doing something wrong?


Cheeer

To be honest I am not quite sure what you mean. Maybe you can provide the the code for the annotated entities. Also more information on what's happening here would be good. What is Util.populateRiskWithData doing and where is riskLoaded coming from?

--Hardy

Hi

Apologies if what I posted did not make sense. Basically this is the situation:

We have a class called Risk which has an reference to a Contract. The contract has some transient fields which I want to index. The transient fields in the contract object will be populated from some other source. So the object structure with anntoation looks like this:


So what I'm doing is initiating a manual index of that Risk when an external source publishes an event which contains the data that I need to set for the transient fields in the Contract object. What the util class is essentially doing is


After populating the contract which I get from the risk I am try indexing the risk, the below gives an idea:


What I'm finding is that I don't see the values that are set on the transient fields indexed in the Risk lucene document and I can't search for them. I presume I should be able to index transient fields even though they are not being saved. The transient fields have the Store strategy to YES. The document that I am passing into the util method has the correct data and fields so I know it's not an issue with the document that I am passing into the util method.

Hope that makes more sense now.

Update:

I removed the transient keyword from the fields in contract and it works. I haven't mapped the fields in the hbm.xml file and I know they are not being persisted. This is strange. Does Hibernate search not index transient fields?


Cheers
Amin

Hi,

first I recommend you to add the following to your logging configuration:



This will dump the content of the generated Lucene document just before it get added to the index.
Generally it should be no problem to index a transient field. What could explain your problem is if at some stage before the actual indexing occurs you merge/reload the saved entity. In this case the transient fields would be nulled or set to their default values. Is your example code exactly what you are doing? Where exactly start/end the sessions and transactions?

--Hardy