Is it possible to do type conversion (from boolean to yes_no) in pure JPA?

Question

There is an annotation in Hibernate that can persist boolean types as \'Y\'/\'N\' in the database.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1154833/configure-hibernate-u

Answer 1

You can use like this

@Entity
public class Employee {
@Convert(converter=BooleanTFConverter.class)
private Boolean isActive;
}

@Converter
public class BooleanYNConverter implements AttributeConverter{
@Override
public String convertToDatabaseColumn(Boolean value) {
    if (value) {
        return "Y";
    } else {
        return "N";
    }
}
@Override
public Boolean convertToEntityAttribute(String value) {
    return "Y".equals(value);
}

}