On 7 Jan 2014, at 19:56, Sanne Grinovero <sanne(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > I was hoping to drop @ProvidedId today as the original "marker" > functionality is no longer needed: since we have > > org.hibernate.search.cfg.spi.SearchConfiguration.isIdProvidedImplicit() > > the option can be implicitly applied to all indexed entries, and the > annotation is mostly redundant in Infinispan since we added this. > > But actually it turns out it's a bit more complex as it servers a second > function as well: it's the only way for users to be able to specify a > FieldBridge for the ID.. so the functionality of this annotation is not > consumed yet. Wouldn’t an additional explicit @FieldBridge annotation work as well?