find fails for query on member of a member

[a1prashant]

Hi All,
I have following:

"email" is NOT direct member of "User", but it is member of "User . Person "...

public class User extends PanacheMongoEntity {

    @NonNull
    @BsonProperty("person")
    public Person person;

   public static List<User> findByEmail(String email) {
        Log.debug("find email: " + email);
        List<User> found = list("email", email);
        Log.debug("returned:" + found);
        return found;
    }
}

and
Person is as follows:

public class Person {

    @BsonProperty("email")
    @JsonProperty("email")
    public Email email;

    public Person(Email paramEmail) {
        this.email = paramEmail;
    }

    public Person(Phone paramPhone) {
        this.phone = paramPhone;
    }

    @BsonProperty("phone")
    public Phone phone;

    @BsonProperty("first_name")
    public String first_name;

I want to know if it is possible to have a query like,
List<User> found = list("email", email);

"email" is NOT direct member of "User", but it is member of "User . Person "

Any pointers??

[a1prashant]

i could make it work, by changing "email" 's data type to String...

It was "Email" .. one of my custom classes...

public class Email extends Field<String> {
   public Email(String param) {
       super(param);
   }

    @Override
    public boolean isValid() {
       // TODO: later use regex approach to validate... 
       return value.trim().isBlank() ? false : true;
    }
}

Is there any way to solve it without this change ???