PreInsert and PreUpdate Event Listener in hibernate

Question

I have used PreInsertEventListener and PreUpdateEventListener Event Listener to insert created date and updated date in table.
The problem i am fac

Answer 1

I recently get same problem when I integrate Spring4 and Hibernate5. This is my BaseEntity class.

@MappedSuperclass
public class BaseEntity implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @Column(nullable = false, updatable = false)
    private Date createDate;

    @Column(nullable = false)
    private Date modifyDate;

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public Date getCreateDate() {
        return createDate;
    }

    public void setCreateDate(Date createDate) {
        this.createDate = createDate;
    }

    public Date getModifyDate() {
        return modifyDate;
    }

    public void setModifyDate(Date modifyDate) {
        this.modifyDate = modifyDate;
    }
}

First of all, you need to define EntityListener class.

public class EntityListener implements PreInsertEventListener, PreUpdateEventListener {

    private static final String CREATE_DATE_PROPERTY = "createDate";

    private static final String MODIFY_DATE_PROPERTY = "modifyDate";

    @Override
    public boolean onPreInsert(PreInsertEvent event) {

        if (event.getEntity() instanceof BaseEntity){
            //property name of entity
            String[] propertyNames = event.getPersister().getEntityMetamodel().getPropertyNames();
            //property value of entity
            Object[] state = event.getState();
            for (int i = 0; i < propertyNames.length ; i ++) {
                if (CREATE_DATE_PROPERTY.equals(propertyNames[i]) || MODIFY_DATE_PROPERTY.equals(propertyNames[i])){
                    state[i] = new Date();
                }
            }
        }

        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onPreUpdate(PreUpdateEvent event) {

        if (event.getEntity() instanceof BaseEntity){
            //property name of entity
            String[] propertyNames = event.getPersister().getEntityMetamodel().getPropertyNames();
            //property value of entity
            Object[] state = event.getState();
            for (int i = 0; i < propertyNames.length ; i ++) {
                if (MODIFY_DATE_PROPERTY.equals(propertyNames[i])){
                    state[i] = new Date();
                }
            }
        }

        return false;
    }
}

Then, you should register entity event listener.

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@Component
public class EntityEventListenerRegistry {

    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    /**
     * EventListenerRegistry:http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.2/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#annotations-jpa-entitylisteners
     */
    @PostConstruct
    public void registerListeners(){
        EventListenerRegistry eventListenerRegistry = ((SessionFactoryImplementor) sessionFactory).getServiceRegistry().getService(EventListenerRegistry.class);
        eventListenerRegistry.prependListeners(EventType.PRE_INSERT, EntityListener.class);
        eventListenerRegistry.prependListeners(EventType.PRE_UPDATE, EntityListener.class);
    }

}

It worked very well, I hope it's helpful for you.