Question

We have a Oracle Date column. At first in our Java/Hibernate class we were using java.sql.Date. This worked but it didn’t seem to store any time information in the database when we save so I changed the Java data type to Timestamp. Now we get this error:

springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
Error creating bean with name
‘org.springframework.dao.an
notation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0’
defined in class path resource
[margin-service-domain
-config.xml]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreatio
nException: Error creating bean with
name ‘sessionFactory’ defined in class
path resource [m-service-doma
in-config.xml]: Invocation of init
method failed; nested exception is
org.hibernate.HibernateException:
Wrong column type: CREATE_TS,
expected: timestamp

Any ideas on how to map an Oracle Date while retaining the time portion?

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Update: I can get it to work if I use the Oracle Timestamp data type but I don’t want that level of precision ideally. Just want the basic Oracle Date.

Answer 1

Not a direct answer but I’d use the Oracle TIMESTAMP type:

• TIMESTAMP (fractional_seconds_ precision) Year, month, and day values
  of date, as well as hour, minute, and
  second values of time, where
  fractional_seconds_precision
  optionally specifies the number of
  digits in the fractional part of the
  SECOND datetime field and can be a
  number in the range 0 to 9. The
  default is 6. For example, you specify
  TIMESTAMP as a literal as follows:

  TIMESTAMP'1997-01-31 09:26:50.124'
  

with the desired fractional_second_precision.