Question

I am making first attempts with JPA (EclipseLink implementation) and feel quite stuck:

In PostgreSQL I have the following db schema

CREATE TYPE mood AS ENUM ( 'sad', 'happy', 'enthusiastic' );

CREATE TABLE person (
  pk      BIGINT   PRIMARY KEY,
  name    VARCHAR  NOT NULL,
  mood    mood     NOT NULL
);

CREATE SEQUENCE person_pk_seq INCREMENT BY 100 MINVALUE 100;

Which works pretty fine, as this insert shows INSERT INTO PERSON (PK, mood, name) VALUES (3, 'happy', 'Joe') (Committing the pk as String makes no difference.)

On the JPA side I wrote the following class:

package testdb;
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.*;
import org.eclipse.persistence.annotations.*;

@Entity
public class Person implements Serializable {
  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

  public enum Mood {
    sad, happy, enthusiastic;
  }

  @Id
  @SequenceGenerator(
    name="PERSON_PK_GENERATOR",
    sequenceName="PERSON_PK_SEQ",
    allocationSize = 100
  )
  @GeneratedValue(
    strategy=GenerationType.SEQUENCE,
    generator="PERSON_PK_GENERATOR"
  )
  public Long pk;

  @Enumerated( EnumType.STRING )
  @Column( name = "mood" )
  @ObjectTypeConverter( name = "moodConverter", objectType = Mood.class,
    dataType = String.class, conversionValues = {
      @ConversionValue( objectValue = "sad", dataValue = "sad" ),
      @ConversionValue( objectValue = "happy", dataValue = "happy" ),
      @ConversionValue( objectValue = "enthusiastic", dataValue = "enthusiastic" )
  })
  @Convert( "moodConverter" )
  public Mood mood;

  @Column( name = "name" )
  public String name;

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    EntityManagerFactory factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("TestDb.jpa.tests" );
    EntityManager em = factory.createEntityManager();

    em.getTransaction().begin();
    Person p = new Person();
    em.persist( p );
    System.out.println(p.pk);
    p.name = "Joe";
    p.mood = Mood.enthusiastic;
    em.getTransaction().commit();

    Query q = em.createQuery( "select p from Person p" );
    Person x = (Person)q.getResultList().get(0);
    System.out.println( x.pk + " :: " +x.mood );

    em.close();
  }
}

However, this example is not working and I have no clue what the problem is:

[EL Warning]: 2012-06-05 15:28:20.646--UnitOfWork(845463623)--Exception [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.3.2.v20111125-r10461): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException
Internal Exception: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Batch-Eintrag 0 INSERT INTO PERSON (PK, mood, name) VALUES ('801', 'enthusiastic', 'Joe') wurde abgebrochen.  Rufen Sie 'getNextException' auf, um die Ursache zu erfahren.
Error Code: 0
Call: INSERT INTO PERSON (PK, mood, name) VALUES (?, ?, ?)
    bind => [3 parameters bound]

When I alter the column type of table person to varchar and remove the annotations @Convert and @ObjectTypeConverter everything is working as expected, as well.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Why do you use a @ObjectTypeConverter, you can map Enumerations out of the box with eclipse link as shown here. @Enumerated is part of JSR-220 whereas @ObjectTypeConverter is a proprietary extension from EclipseLink JPA Extensions.

@Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
@Column(name = "mood")
private Mood mood;