Re: [hibernate-dev] [HSEARCH-566] Indexing null values for an @ElementCollection

On 31 juil. 2011, at 21:44, Sanne Grinovero wrote: Hum is it really the way we are going? ie @Field would be used by the elements of the collection if it's a collection? I'm not a big fan for a couple of reasons: - it breaks backward compatibility - I cannot write a custom collection bridge We're back to the same problem over and over but to me the best mapping in Java 8 will be: @ElementCollection Collection<(a)Field(bridge=StringBridge.class) String> tags But until then we need to find alternatives. I can see two alternatives 1. use a custom @ElementField annotation This annotation will represent the element in a collection. I like this idea as it forward compatible with Java 8's approach 2. Let @Field be used for elements of a collection and create a @CollectionField to index the collection Subsidiary questions: - is there other annotation that need to be converted to the @Element* pattern? - what about maps and specifically keys in maps?