@TypeDef is supposed to allow users to define standard types to be used for specific classes. However, due to a bug in implementation, it simply doesn't work for enums.
Enums are implicitly handled by the JPA spec. However, if a @TypeDef is defined for a particular enum, it will never be picked up due to bug in org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.SimpleValueBinder .
This class has a concept of a "explicitType", i.e., a type that was explicitly specified for a property. However, even if @EnumType is not used to annotate a property, method setType(XProperty,XClass) considers the property as annotated with it. Then, when fillSimpleValue() is called as part of second-pass compilation, the ternary in line 344 chooses org.hibernate.type.EnumType instead of the enum FQN, causing any @TypeDef to be ignored.
This behaviour should be fixed by considering a non-annotated enum property as implicitly typed, not explicitly. Then, the resolution order should be changed to explicitType -> returnedClassName -> implicitType. This would preserve default, expected behaviour for regular enums, while allowing @TypeDef to be used for enums as well.
hibernate-jpa-2.0-api:1.0.1-Final; hibernate-core:4.1.0.Final; hibernate-entitymanager:4.1.0.Final
Please create a pull request from your fork of the hibernate-orm repository (https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm). Please include your fix and a test case that reproduces your issue in the pull request.
Thanks,
Gail
I sent a pull request with a test and the correction.
It is with that description: "HHH-7108 TypeDef in Enum"
Basically there are 3 kinds of type:
explicit: When an annotation that define a type is informed how @Type, @Lob, @Temporal, @Enumerated etc.
implicit: When annotation is not informed but there is a global type for the returned class
default: When annotation is not informed and it has a default type for returned class like @Enumerated(ORDINAL), int, string etc.
This provide an easy way to extend EnumType
https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/pull/355
https://github.com/Janario/hibernate-orm
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