Bean Parent has a collection of Child that should be indexted. To do so I have to define property childs (@OneToMany) and mark it as @IndexedEmbedded. The problem is I do not need property childs any other time except indexing. So I don't want define it at bean because it make structure much more complicated

How can I solve my problem better way?

Can you provide an example? And why do you not need the Child entities? Are they not part of your model? Maybe you could map then as lazy. They will be populated initially, but if you retrieve instances later on this collection won't be loaded (unless accessed).

--Hardy

The problem is: the following code doesn't make correct index . To get correct index I have to make . I think it is not good if I only want correct Lucene index

I think I solved my problem by using Interceptors and custom FieldBridges. At save/delete time of child I execute . Parent has property "luceneChilds" which returns "this". FieldBridge of property "luceneChilds" collects all childs and creates Lucene fields =)

I don't understand why it is bad to have a bi-directional relation. Is it not a good thing that you can get from parents to children and vice versa. If you use lazy loading properly it is just a win at no almost no cost. And sure, if you have a bidirectional relation you have to set both ends.

I think I solved my problem by using Interceptors and custom FieldBridges. At save/delete time of child I execute . Parent has property "luceneChilds" which returns "this". FieldBridge of property "luceneChilds" collects all childs and creates Lucene fields =)[/quote]

That's seems to be an awful lot of work and customization for something which could be very easy. A custom field bridge could of course solve your problem. However, I am wondering what luceneChilds really is? In the end you need to navigate from parent to child. Also, how do you collect the children in the bridge? If you are running another query what do you gain really?

--Hardy

May be you are right...
But now I don't need bi-directional relation to make correct Lucene index. I have dao method getAllChilds(parent) and calls it only at necesary time. Now I have more understanding what's happening

I'm getting dao object by static method