Hi,
I have some URL in my persistence Objects, like:



Hibernate stores them as "VARBINARY", so when I browse the database with an SQL-Client I cannot see (nor debug) what data really is stored.

Can I somehow configure that URLs are stored (and loaded) as String-Objects? Is there any annotation to change the column-type?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Tobias

There are a list of options:

• Define the property imageURL as a field of type String with String getter and setter and do the mapping outside of the bean
• Define the property imageURL as a field of type String and do the mapping within the getter and setter operations
• Use as custom type mapper as described in Hibernate documentation and in the following blog. This way binds you to the custom type mapping support of the JPA implementation.

I think I would prefer option 2!

Kind regards,
Michael

Hey thanks!

Sometimes its that simple... I did not know, that I am allowed to have getters and setters with different type than the field itself!

Thanks for the hint,
Tobias

You must only annotate your fields and not the getter methods. I do the same in my beans and do the mapping in my getter and setter method, so I can provide types in my API without binding me to Hibernate.

Kind regards,
Michael