On 1 août 2011, at 10:31, Sanne Grinovero wrote: > 2011/8/1 Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org>: >> >> On 31 juil. 2011, at 21:44, Sanne Grinovero wrote: >> >>> @ElementCollection >>> @Field(indexNullAsl="nullToken") >>> String[] tags >> >> 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 > > 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.
You have always been able to write a FieldBridge that accepts a Collection and do whatever you want in it. @Field(bridge=@FieldBridge(impl=CustomCollFB.class) public Collection<String> getNames() { ... } > 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. So you're saying that assuming you're OK with the default bridges, the elements of the collection will be indexed, but the minute you override the @FieldBridge, we default back to the existing behavior ie be a bridge accepting the collection. Is that correct? ## How about Date resolution? You would let people set a @Resolution and be applied to the elements? ## How about NumericField? Same as @Resolution? ## Custom bridge for elements If a user wants a custom bridge for the elements, he needs to write a custom bridge accepting the collection. Is that correct? I'm trying to get a grasp on the limitations. _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev