that was on purpose. the locale field is set to a locale and i persist my document. why should i need to explicitly bind that in addition to persisting? i thought if i persist and have the locale field set, it would happen automatically. is there a reason to not have that happen automatically? i think even multiple persists with different locales in the locale mapped field should work like bindTranslation. the only difference is that in bindTranslation you specify the locale explicitly