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

[Sanne Grinovero]

2011/8/1 Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>:
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> On 31 juil. 2011, at 21:44, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
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>> @ElementCollection
>> @Field(indexNullAsl="nullToken")
>> String[] tags
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> 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?
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> I'm not a big fan for a couple of reasons:
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> - it breaks backward compatibility
> - I cannot write a custom collection bridge

How is this breaking backwards compatibility, when this was previously
not supported? This was needing a field bridge, and since I've been
suggesting many times on the forum how to add multiple fields, it
seems a common use case.

I think this new bridge could be applied to the elements in this case,
but be overridden by a custom bridge: so if someone was defining his
own custom bridge it would still be applied instead.
The point of the feature is that when mapping collections of
primitives, people don't need to provide a custom bridge, and @Field
is all what is needed to index the elements; of course this should not
prevent more advanced mappings.