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                                                            <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0; margin-top: 0">To clarify: this only applies to an entity which is using a ClassBridge right?<br> For fields of an entity which is not using such a bridge, I would expect the indexing engine to be able to figure out that a specific entity property is not going to be read, without even needing an annotation. Wondering if we can avoid the additional annotation and still do the right thing.</p>
                                                        </blockquote> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">In our case, it's more about transient (computed) fields than about <tt>ClassBridge</tt> s. But yes, for {{ClassBridge} s the problem would be the same.</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">To clarify, the use case is the following:</p> 
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@Indexed
@Entity
<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> class MyClass {

  @Id
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">Long</span> id;

  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field1UsedInTransientIndex;

  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field2UsedInTransientIndex;

  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field3NOTUsedInTransientIndex;

  <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// ... getters and setters, with no @Field on them ...
</span>
  @Transient
  @Field
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">int</span> getComputedValue() {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> doSomeComplexCalculation(field1UsedInTransientIndex, field2UsedInTransientIndex);
  }
}
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                                                        </div> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">In this case, Hibernate Search cannot know (without additional metadata) what entity property the method <tt>getComputedValue</tt> depend on. Which is, as you said, quite different from knowing which index fields are affected by this method. Currently, it means that whenever Hibernate Search detects an <tt>@Transient @Field</tt>, it disables dirty-checking completely.</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">One solution, proposed in <a href="https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1093" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-1093</a>, would be to add an annotation to declare which entity properties this method rely on:</p> 
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  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field1UsedInTransientIndex;

  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field2UsedInTransientIndex;

  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field3NOTUsedInTransientIndex;

  <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// ... getters and setters, with no @Field on them ...
</span>
  @AssociateDirty(fields={<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">"field1UsedInTransientIndex"</span>, <span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">"field2UsedInTransientIndex"</span>}) <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// &lt;==== HERE
</span>  @Transient
  @Field
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">int</span> getComputedValue() {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> doSomeComplexCalculation(field1UsedInTransientIndex, field2UsedInTransientIndex);
  }
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                                                        </div> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">That way, Hibernate Search would consider that whenever "field1UsedInTransientIndex" or "field2UsedInTransientIndex" are dirty, then the "computedValue" field needs reindexing.</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">This seems like a valid solution, but:</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0"> 1. Nobody seems to have time to implement it right now (judging by the last update on the JIRA ticket)<br> 2. This would not solve the issue for <tt>ClassBridge</tt> s (unless we allow adding this annotation on a <tt>ClassBridge</tt> 's class?)</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">The other solution, proposed in this ticket, would be to add an annotation to declare which entity properties <b>no field</b> (i.e. no <tt>@Transient @Field</tt> method, no <tt>ClassBridge</tt>) depend on:</p> 
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  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field1UsedInTransientIndex;

  @Basic
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field2UsedInTransientIndex;

  @Basic
  @IndexTransient <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// &lt;==== HERE
</span>  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">String</span> field3NOTUsedInTransientIndex;

  <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// ... getters and setters, with no @Field on them ...
</span>
  @Transient
  @Field
  <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">int</span> getComputedValue() {
    <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> doSomeComplexCalculation(field1UsedInTransientIndex, field2UsedInTransientIndex);
  }
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                                                        </div> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 0">That way, we could implement a preliminary check in the <tt>FullTextIndexEventListener</tt> whenever a Hibernate update occurs: if all of the dirty properties are annotated <tt>@IndexTransient</tt>, then skip re-indexing.<br> This second solution would provide a way to positively identify entity properties that are not used when indexing. Currently either we are sure they are used (annotated @Field) or we don't know (no annotation). With this annotation, we'd have a third category, where we <b>know</b> the property is not used when indexing.<br> I think this second solution really is relevant even if the first is ultimately implemented: if I've got 3 properties and 10 <tt>@Transient @Field</tt> methods, I'd rather just annotate one property with <tt>@IndexTransient</tt> than annotate my 10 methods with <tt>@AssociateDirty</tt>...</p> </td> 
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