Introduction

The Hibernate Types repository gives you extra types and general purpose utilities that are not supported by the Hibernate ORM core.

The main advantage of this project is that it supports a broad range of Hibernate versions, spanning from Hibernate 4.1 to Hibernate 5.4.

Features

JSON

• How to map a Jackson JsonNode to a JSON column
• Java Object to String or Binary JSON column mapping
• How to map JSON collections using JPA and Hibernate
• Java Collection to String or Binary JSON column mapping
• How to customize the Jackson ObjectMapper used by Hibernate-Types
• How to customize the JSON Serializer used by Hibernate-Types
• How to fix the Hibernate “No Dialect mapping for JDBC type: 1111” issue when mixing JSON types with native SQL queries

PostgreSQL Types (e.g. ARRAY, ENUM, INET)

• PostgreSQL ARRAY mapping
• Java Enum to PostgreSQL Enum Type
• How to map the PostgreSQL Inet type with JPA and Hibernate
• How to map a PostgreSQL HStore entity property with JPA and Hibernate
• How to map a PostgreSQL Enum ARRAY to a JPA entity property using Hibernate
• How to map a PostgreSQL Range column type with JPA and Hibernate

Generic Types

• java.time.YearMonth to DATE or INTEGER column
• Character to nullable CHAR column
• ImmutableType utility to simplify UserType implementations

Utilities

• How to map camelCase properties to snake_case column names with Hibernate

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Installation

Depending on the Hibernate version you are using, you need to following dependency:

Hibernate 5.4, 5.3 and 5.2

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.vladmihalcea</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-types-52</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.4</version>
</dependency>

Hibernate 5.1 and 5.0

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.vladmihalcea</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-types-5</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.4</version>
</dependency>

Hibernate 4.3

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.vladmihalcea</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-types-43</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.4</version>
</dependency>

Hibernate 4.2 and 4.1

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.vladmihalcea</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-types-4</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.4</version>
</dependency>

Requirements

• Java version supported by the Hibernate ORM version you are using.
• SLF4J
• Jackson Databind