4.3. Providing your own id
Warning
This part of the documentation is a work in progress.
You can provide your own id for Hibernate Search if you are extending the internals. You will have to generate a unique value so it can be given to Lucene to be indexed. This will have to be given to Hibernate Search when you create an org.hibernate.search.Work object - the document id is required in the constructor.
4.3.1. The ProvidedId annotation
Unlike conventional Hibernate Search API and @DocumentId, this annotation is used on the class and not a field. You also can provide your own bridge implementation when you put in this annotation by calling the bridge() which is on @ProvidedId. Also, if you annotate a class with @ProvidedId, your subclasses will also get the annotation - but it is not done by using the java.lang.annotations.@Inherited. Be sure however, to not use this annotation with @DocumentId as your system will break.
Example 4.19. Providing your own id
@ProvidedId (bridge = org.my.own.package.MyCustomBridge)
@Indexed
public class MyClass{
@Field
String MyString;
...
}