@Enumerated(ORDINAL) does not work on VARCHAR columns ----------------------------------------------------- Key: ANN-808 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-808 Project: Hibernate Annotations Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.3.1.GA Environment: Tested on Postgres, but the problem should be reproductible on any DB vendor Reporter: Eduardo Costa Copied from http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=995698: ========== Suppose I have this enum: public enum Status { OK, NOK, NOT_APPLICABLE } And this property: @Column(name = "status") @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL) private Status status; And this table (legacy, CANNOT be changed): CREATE TABLE tb_xxx ( id bigint NOT NULL, status character varying(1) NOT NULL, ) It leads to this exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum const class mypkg.Status.1 java.lang.Enum.valueOf(Enum.java:196) org.hibernate.type.EnumType.nullSafeGet(EnumType.java:110) Taking a look at EnumType.java, it is clear that Hibernate imposes ordinal stored as number and name stored as varchar. ========= IMHO, this is a "specification gap": JPA does not consider what to do if I'm trying to map a legacy enumerated value. Since I'm defining @Enumerated as "ordinal" and I have "0", "1", "2" on my database, I believe Hibernate should consider what I'm defining, not what an ancient DBA defined. Otherwise, I can't map this using only Hibernate Annotations/JPA (BTW, this code works with TopLink, only changing JPA provider on persistence.xml) -- 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