Hibernate Spatial 5 - GeometryType

Question

After upgrading Hibernate-spatial to Version 5.0.0.CR2 the following declaration doesn\'t work anymore:

@Column(columnDefinition = \"geometry(Point,4326)\")
@Typ         


        

Answer 1

For Hibernate Spatial 5.2.x, all you need is the below in your entity.

private Point location;

You don't need columnDefinition or Type like the above solutions mentioned.

Some additional details and checks to see if the above works

• As soon as you run your setup and use desc table_namein mysql, you should see the field type of geometry. This indicates that your hibernate to database mapping is working fine.
• Now try to create an entity and repo.save(entity) from java and your entity should save fine without any errors.

If the above setup didn't work well, you will typically get the error

Data truncation: Cannot get geometry object from data you send to the GEOMETRY field Blockquote

Hope that helps someone save a 6 hours that I wasted !