enum type annotation: add portable column type ----------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5667 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5667 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: annotations Environment: ALL Reporter: Dave enum type ordinal values are mapped to integer type column. For most cases, they should be mapped to byte type, for example, smallint(2) for mysql. public Fruit { public enum Color { RED, YELLOW } @Column(columnDefinition="smallint(2)") private Color getColor() { ... } } The annotation above is not portable. For an application with more than 100 enum types, an portable annotation for column type is needed. For example, @Column(equivalentType=Byte.class) private Color getColor() { ... } it says: mapping the enum type is equivalent to mapping a byte type. -- 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