I thought this would be straight forward, but either there is a bug or this is not supported for reasons unknown to me. Though from Hibernate Search In Action, the treatment of Collections seems to be that 1. All collections hibernate core supports is supported, and 2. Use IndexEmbedded.

Whenever I have a property that is a collection of Integer, Double, String, you name it. It doesn't get indexed. I have:

@CollectionOfElements
@JoinTable(name="enrollment_groups", joinColumns={@JoinColumn(name="enrollee_id")})
@Column(name="enrollment_group_id")
@IndexedEmbedded
private Set<String> utilityEnrollmentGroups;

If I were to change this to a group of embedded types, everything gets indexed just fine.

Is this a known issue? Bug?

Here are the various core and module versions in use:
Core: 3.5.2
Search: 3.2.0

Any help would be appreciated.

Hello,
currently @IndexedEmbedded expect a type having annotated fields, you should add a simple fieldBridge.

I think it would be cool to support this, please open a JIRA request for new feature: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HSEARCH

Thanks Sanne. I feel better knowing I didn't miss something obvious.

I've created a new feature request: http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... SEARCH-539

In the meantime I'll go with the custom bridge work around.