Hi folks!

With MS SQLServer and the JSQLConnect driver (not sure about other db/driver combos) if a string property of an entity has been set with a value longer than the field in the database, it can not be saved.

I'd would like to truncate the String to the length of the db column. Unfortunately i couldn't find any way in hibernate to access the metadata of a db table.

Is there any possibility to retrieve the length the db column mapped to a property?

Any help would be appreciated!

There is no Hibernate API for that, you can use standard JDBC methods by getting the connection from the session.

thx a lot! we'll do that.