Hello,

I would like to map an enum property to a field of my database of type char ? What should I write to the mapping file ?

thanks,

mathmax

You should write an EnumUserType, see http://www.hibernate.org/272.html for more informations about this.

A UserType is quite easy to implement and let you deal absolutely how you want with your data and the way they must be persisted.

Hello batmat.

I have a problem :

I guess I should define a user type like this :

<typedef name="ESex" class="EnumUserType">
<param name="enumClass">ESex</param>
<param name="identifierMethod">ToString</param>
<param name="valueOfMethod">fromString</param>
</typedef>

identifierMethod permit to cast from string to enum type
and valueOfMethod permit to cast enum type to string.

But where to define those methods ?

Batmat, I'm french too. I would feel more comfortable if I could speech french with you. May I write you an e-mail you speech by msn ?

thank you for your help.