[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (ANN-658) Annotation or the key word "enum" to change default behaviour to @Enumerated(value=EnumType.STRING) for all properties.

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-658?page=co... ] Matthew D. Frederes commented on ANN-658: ----------------------------------------- We have enums with members we have to rename to be compatible with Java naming convention (cannot begin with a numeric character), but would rather our preferred name be used as the string representation in the database.... Here is a sample class public enum EDIVersion { val_002000("002000"), // ASC X12 Standards Approved by ANSI in Feb, 1986 val_002001("002001"), // Draft Standards Approved by ASC X12 in November 1987 ... val_004010("004010") // Draft Standards Approved for Publication by ASC X12 Procedures Review Board through October 1997 EDIVersion (int value) { this.value = value; } private final int value; public int value() { return value; } } In the above example, the database would contain "val_004010" instead of the desired "004010". We could get this functionality using a @Type annotation, however as Michael pointed out, this has to be done on every class property where the enum type is used. Could consideration be given to extending the annotation with a stringProperty value? @Enumerated(value=EnumType.STRING, stringProperty = "value") Thank you. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira