[jboss-user] [EJB 3.0] - @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) writes ordinal to table

[tynor]

JBoss AS 4.2.1

I'm trying to persist an enum as a string (e.g. "OBJECT_CREATE" rather than its ordinal 0):

public enum AuditEvent {
  | 	OBJECT_CREATE,OBJECT_UPDATE,OBJECT_REMOVE,FIELD_CHANGE,
  | }

My Entity property is marked with @Enumerated to set the STRING converstion:  

	@Column(name = "audit_event")
  | 	@Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
  | 	public AuditEvent getEvent() {...

The generated table is (correctly) a VARCHAR (without the STRING annotation, it is an int), but the value written to the table is still the ordinal value (the string '0' rather than the string 'OBJECT_CREATE').

Is this a bug in JBoss 4.2.1, or a misunderstanding of the spec on my part?


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