Spring Boot JPA@CreatedDate @LastModifiedDate not being populated when saving the object

Question

I am writing an app with Spring Boot + JPA, using a Postgres database. I have a User Entity and I am trying to get a timestamp when the user record is saved and/or modified.

Answer 1

The AuditingEntityListener methods are called in the @PrePersist and @PreUpdate phase.

This means they are called just before the insert or update SQL statements are executed.

Read more about JPA events in the Hibernate doc: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.2/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#events-jpa-callbacks

Unit Tests

When using in Tests you have to enable auditing as well on the test

@DataJpaTest
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@EnableJpaAuditing
public class EntityListenerTest {