@ElementCollection + nested @Embeddable -> @Enumerated ignored

Confirmed, thanks for good news!

This is not reproducible anymore with Hibernate 6.2.5.Final. Also see

I've tried this once more with updated dependencies. I'm sad to say that 6.1.5.Final is still affected by this bug. Hibernate ignores @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) if @Access(AccessType.FIELD) is not present at nested @Embeddable.

It’s been after almost a year and a half now. At least some confirmation would be nice. Thanks in advance.

As I recall, ORM works properly if nesting is “less complex”. For instance:
- @ElementCollection List<IdentityDocument> is fine (collection of plain embeddables),
- @Embedded IdentityDocumentUsage is also fine (embedded twice, but 1-1 instead of 1-n).

Please let me know if I can help you somehow.

Please review, clone and run mvn test to replicate.

Something similar to the following should be logged:

However, when you remove @Access(AccessType.FIELD) at IdentityDocument, @Enumerated at type is going to be ignored.

As you can see, type is being mapped to integer instead of varchar.

I believe that this may be a bug in org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder. For some reason it tries to read annotations at getType() method instead of type field (at the same time accessType is org.hibernate.cfg.AccessType.DEFAULT instead of org.hibernate.cfg.AccessType.FIELD). As this annotations list is empty, Hibernate uses ordinal based mapping which would be default without @Enumerated(STRING).