3 Replies Latest reply on Dec 30, 2005 9:12 PM by epbernard

Persisting enums...

inkypinky Dec 20, 2005 1:21 PM

I have an entity bean which has an enum member variable. Previously we were using hibernate without ejb 3 and I persisted it as an int. Is there any annotation I can use to do the same thing. e.g. would it work to do

@Column(name="intcol")
public Format getFormat() { return format; }
public void setFormat(Format format) { this.format = format; }

Where Format is an enum and intcol is an integer column in a db table?

Thanks,

Neil
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1. Re: Persisting enums...

inkypinky Dec 21, 2005 11:55 AM (in response to inkypinky)

OK, problem solved, enums persist fine my problem was realted to tomcats classloader not dealing with enums but now i have set the web magic to use Jboss' classloader instead....

:p
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2. Re: Persisting enums...

greening Dec 21, 2005 4:44 PM (in response to inkypinky)

The just-released proposed final draft has a new annotation allowing enum fields to be persisted ordinals or strings.

public enum EmployeeStatus {FULL_TIME, PART_TIME, CONTRACT}
public enum SalaryRate {JUNIOR, SENIOR, MANAGER, EXECUTIVE}
@Entity public class Employee {
...
public EmployeeStatus getStatus() {...}
@Enumerated(STRING)
public SalaryRate getPayScale() {...}
...
}

When do y'all expect to release a new EJB3 alpha that roughly conforms with the PFD?
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3. Re: Persisting enums...

epbernard Dec 30, 2005 9:12 PM (in response to inkypinky)

This is part of Hibernate Annotations beta8
http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
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