Doesn't work setting default value of property in Hibernate

Question

I have a boolean property in my entity. Here\'s my annotations for it:

@Column(name = \"IS_ACTIVE\", nullable = false, columnDefinition=\"BIT DEFAULT 1\", length         


        

Answer 1

Try using BOOLEAN data type, define your @Column annotation like that:

@Column(name = "IS_ACTIVE", columnDefinition = "boolean default true", nullable = false)
private Boolean active = true;

Answer 2

reference to the correct answer in this link How to set default value in Hibernate

If you want a real database default value, use columnDefinition - @Column(name = “myColumn”, nullable = false, columnDefinition = “int default 100"). Notice that the string in columnDefinition is database dependent. Also if you choose this option, you have to use dynamic-insert, so Hibernate doesn't include columns with null values on insert. Otherwise talking about default is irrelevant.

The key of the solution is dynamic-insert annotation. You can add it to your entity class as this example: @org.hibernate.annotations.Entity(dynamicInsert = true)