Question

I am using a model in Play like this:

package models;

import java.util.*;
import javax.persistence.*;

import play.db.jpa.*;

@Entity
public class User extends Model {

    public String email;
    public String password;
    public String fullname;
    public boolean isAdmin;

    public User(String email, String password, String fullname) {
        this.email = email;
        this.password = password;
        this.fullname = fullname;
    }

}

Then, the table created by Play! has fields sorted alphabetically like:

id
email
fullname
isAdmin
password

Is there any way to have it in the right order?

Answer 1

Play uses Hibernate. Hibernate orders the columns when it creates the tables. See this discussion:

It is sorted to ensurce deterministic ordering across clusters.

To get a different order, let Hibernate create the DDLs for the tables and sort the columns the way you like.

That is: Don’t let Play/Hibernate create the tables automatically. Instead, create them manually.