hibernate types

The Hibernate Types library gives you extra types that are not supported by the Hibernate ORM core.

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Migrating to version 3

The project name was changed from Hibernate Types to Hypersistence Utils because the scope
of the project is much broader now, offering Spring utilities as well.

For this reason, when migrating from the Hibernate Types 2.x to Hypersistence Utils 3.x,
you will need to follow these steps:

  1. First, you will need to change your Maven or Gradle dependency, as illustrated by the Installation Guide.
  2. Second, you will need to change the package name from com.vladmihalcea.hibernate to io.hypersistence.utils.hibernate.
  3. Third, you will need to change the package name from com.vladmihalcea.spring to io.hypersistence.utils.spring.

That’s it!

Introduction

The Hypersistence Utils project gives you general-purpose utilities for both Spring and Hibernate.

The main advantage of this project is that it supports a broad range of Hibernate versions, spanning from Hibernate ORM 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, 6.3 to 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, 5.6, and Hibernate 5.5.

Installation Guide

Depending on the Hibernate version you are using, you need to add the following dependency:

Hibernate 6.6, 6.5, 6.4, and 6.3

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.hypersistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>hypersistence-utils-hibernate-63</artifactId>
    <version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>

Hibernate 6.2

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.hypersistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>hypersistence-utils-hibernate-62</artifactId>
    <version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>

Hibernate 6.1 and 6.0

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.hypersistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>hypersistence-utils-hibernate-60</artifactId>
    <version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>

Hibernate 5.6 and 5.5

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.hypersistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>hypersistence-utils-hibernate-55</artifactId>
    <version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>

Optional Maven Dependencies

The Hypersistence Utils project defines a list of optional dependencies that you will have to declare explicitly in your project in order to use them.

The reason why all these dependencies are optional, like Guava, Jackson, or PostgreSQL JDBC Driver, is that not all projects may need them.

Moreover, the dependency version is extremely important because, from time to time, security issues may be discovered that get fixed in newer versions.

So, relying on this library to supply you with the dependency versions is a very dangerous thing to do.

For instance, there have been 65 security issues discovered in the Jackson Data Bind library this project is heavily relying on.

To avoid risking security issues, you need to take the responsibility of constantly upgrading all the dependencies that you are using along with the Hypersistence Utils library.

JSON Optional Maven Dependencies

If you are using JSON Types, then you might be interested in setting the following dependencies based on your Hibernate version:

Hibernate 6
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-module-jakarta-xmlbind-annotations</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson-module-jakarta-xmlbind-annotation}</version>
</dependency>
Hibernate 5
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson-databind.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson-module-jaxb-annotation}</version>
</dependency>
Guava Optional Maven Dependency

If you are mapping a Range using Guava, then you have to provide the Guava dependency explicitly:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
    <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
    <version>${guava.version}</version>
</dependency>
Java Money and Currency API Optional Maven Dependency

If you are mapping a MonetaryAmount, then you have to provide the Moneta dependency explicitly:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.javamoney</groupId>
    <artifactId>moneta</artifactId>
    <version>${moneta.version}</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>
PostgreSQL Optional Maven Dependency

If you are mapping a PostgreSQL-specific column type (e.g., inet, hstore, array, interval), then you have to provide the PostgreSQL dependency explicitly:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
    <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
    <version>${postgresql.version}</version>
</dependency>

Features

JSON

Generic JSON Type

The JsonType allows you to map JSON column types, no matter if you’re using Oracle,
SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Hibernate 6

If you’re using Hibernate 6, you can map any JSON column to Map, List, POJO, String, or JsonNode entity property:

@Type(JsonType.class)
private Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<>();
Hibernate 5

If you’re using Hibernate 5, you can either provide the fully-qualified name of the Hibernate Type:

@Type(type = "io.hypersistence.utils.hibernate.type.json.JsonType")

Or, you can add the following mapping to your package-info.java class in the same package where your JPA entities are located:

@TypeDef(
    name = "json", typeClass = JsonType.class
)
package io.hypersistence.optimizer;

import io.hypersistence.utils.hibernate.type.json.JsonType;
import org.hibernate.annotations.TypeDef;

Later, you can map the Map, List, POJO, String, or JsonNode entity properties to JSON columns like this:

@Type(type = "json")
private Map<String, String> properties = new HashMap<>();

For more details, check out this article.

Best Practices

When mapping a JSON column type to a POJO, List<POJO> or Map<String, POJO>, you need to make sure that the POJO type overrides the default equals and hashCode methods and implements them according to the JSON object content.

Otherwise, the Hibernate dirty checking mechanism may trigger unexpected UPDATE statements. Check out the #134 issue for more details.

Database-specific JSON types
Oracle

When using Oracle, you have several options:

  • you can use the generic JsonType that can work with the JSON, VARCHAR, or BLOB column types,
    as long as you hint the column type using the columnDefinition attribute of the JPA @Column annotation.
  • you can use the JsonStringType to map a VARCHAR2 column type storing JSON.
  • you can use the JsonBlobType to map a BLOB column type storing JSON.

For more details, check out this article.

SQL Server

When using SQL Server, you can use the generic JsonType or the JsonStringType to map an NVARCHAR column type storing JSON.

For more details, check out this article.

PostgreSQL

When using PostgreSQL, you can use the generic JsonType or the JsonBinaryType to map both jsonb and json column types.

For more details, check out this article.

MySQL

When using MySQL, you can use the generic JsonType or the JsonStringType to map the json column type.

For more details, check out this article.

JSON mapping examples

ARRAY

PostgreSQL Types (e.g. ENUM, INET, HSTORE, RANGE)

Generic Types

Utilities

Spring
BaseJpaRepository

The BaseJpaRepository is a much better alternative to the default Spring Data JpaRepository because it does not provide a findAll method or a save method that makes no sense in JPA terminology.

To use the BaseJpaRepository utility, make sure that you provide the repositoryBaseClass attribute in the @EnableJpaRepositories configuration to reference the BaseJpaRepositoryImpl from the Hypersistence Utils project:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
    value = "your.repository.package",
    repositoryBaseClass = BaseJpaRepositoryImpl.class
)
public class JpaConfiguration {
    ...
}

The your.repository.package is the Java package of your Spring repositories.

HibernateRepository

While the BaseJpaRepository is to be preferred, in case you need to use the default JpaRepository, then you can at least extend the HibernateRepository as well to deprecate the methods that may cause problems.

To use the HibernateRepository, make sure that you include the io.hypersistence.utils.spring.repository package in your @EnableJpaRepositories configuration:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories(
    value = {
        "io.hypersistence.utils.spring.repository",
        "your.repository.package",
        ...
    }
)
public class JpaConfiguration {
    ...
}

The your.repository.package is the Java package of your Spring repositories.

Identifier Generators
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DTO Projection and ResultTransformer
SQL Statement Count Validator
Query Utilities

Requirements

  • Java version supported by the Hibernate ORM version you are using.
  • SLF4J
  • Jackson Databind

Bug fixes and enhancements

This project is Free, as in Libre, not Gratis.

There is no free-of-charge support. Only the source code and the binaries are available for free.

If you need assistance with a given issue, you will need to purchase either the Coaching Basic or the Coaching Pro programs.

Providing your own fix

Besides the Paid support options, you have the option of providing your own fix. For that, here’s what you need to do:

  1. Provide a replicating test case using the existing test cases as a template
  2. Provide a fix proposal
  3. Send a Pull Request with the fix proposal and the test case

However, due to lack of time, I will review the submitted Pull Requests from time to time, so you may need to wait several months until the Pull Request is reviewed and integrated.

Are you struggling with application performance issues?

Hypersistence Optimizer

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Imagine discovering early during the development cycle that you are using suboptimal mappings and entity relationships or that you are missing performance-related settings.

More, with Hypersistence Optimizer, you can detect all such issues during testing and make sure you don’t deploy to production a change that will affect data access layer performance.

Hypersistence Optimizer is the tool you’ve been long waiting for!

Training

If you are interested in on-site training, I can offer you my High-Performance Java Persistence training,
which can be adapted to one, two or three days of sessions. For more details, check out my website.

Consulting

If you want me to review your application and provide insight into how you can optimize it to run faster,
then check out my consulting page.

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Contributing Guide

The project uses Maven Toolchains as different modules are compiled and tested using different Java versions.

Hypersistence Utils 6 requires Java 11 while the other modules are compiled with Java 8.

To see how to configure Maven Toolchains, check out this article.

The project uses various database systems for integration testing, and you can configure the JDBC connection settings using the
DatasourceProvider instances (e.g., PostgreSQLDataSourceProvider), and the project uses Testcontainers to bootstrap a Docker container
with the required Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL instance on demand.

If you are a regular contributor, it’s advisable to set up the required database locally or use the Docker Compose configuration provided in the docker folder,
as bootstrapping the containers on demand is slower, and your tests are going to take longer to run.

If you want to fix an issue or add support for a new feature, please provide the associated integration test case that proves the improvement is working as expected.