UserType ignored

[terryb]

Hi,

I am trying to implement a usertype for spaced trimmed String. I have done as below but during execution Hibernate just ignores my usertype.

Is there something else needed for my StringTrimmed usertype to be used instead of the default String?

----- UserType ----------------------
package au.edu.tisc.usertype;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import org.hibernate.Hibernate;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.usertype.UserType;

/**
 * String user type with left and right spaces trimmed.
 */
public class StringTrimmed implements UserType {

 public int[] sqlTypes() {
 return new int[] { Hibernate.STRING.sqlType() };
 }

 public Class returnedClass() {
 return String.class;
 }

 public boolean isMutable() {
 return false;
 }

 public Object deepCopy(Object value) {

 String stringValue = (String) value;
 String copy = new String(stringValue);
 return copy;
 }

 public Serializable disassemble(Object value) {
 return (Serializable) value;
 }

 public Object assemble(Serializable cached, Object owner) {
 return cached;
 }

 public Object replace(Object original, Object target, Object owner) {

 String stringValue = (String) original;
 String copy = new String(stringValue);
 return copy;
 }

 public boolean equals(Object x, Object y) {

 if (x == y) {
 return true;
 }

 if (x == null || y == null) {
 return false;
 }

 return x.equals(y);
 }

 public int hashCode(Object x) {
 return x.hashCode();
 }

 public Object nullSafeGet(ResultSet resultSet, String[] names, Object owner) throws SQLException {

 String stringValue = resultSet.getString(names[0]);
 if (resultSet.wasNull()) {
 return null;
 }

 return stringValue;
 }

 public void nullSafeSet(PreparedStatement statement, Object value, int index) throws HibernateException, SQLException {

 if (value == null) {
 statement.setNull(index, Hibernate.STRING.sqlType());
 } else {
 String untrimmedValue = (String) value;
 statement.setString(index, untrimmedValue.trim());
 }
 }
}
-----------------------------------------------------------

----------------- Entity class using usertype -------------

@Entity
@Table(name = "Client")
@TypeDef(name="StringTrimmed", typeClass=au.edu.tisc.usertype.StringTrimmed.class)
public class Client implements java.io.Serializable {

 private String id;
 ...

 @Type(type = "StringTrimmed")
 private String notes;

 ...

 @Column(name = "Notes", length = 250)
 @Length(max = 250)
 public String getNotes() {
 return this.notes;
 }

 public void setNotes(String notes) {
 this.notes = notes;
 }

}