@CreatedDate annotation does not work with mysql

Question

I am new to spring and I am confused how @CreatedDate annotation works in an entity.

I did a google search and there were many solutions, but none of them worked fo

Answer 1

I was Having this issue also and your solution helped me, Thanks, And I add some other annotations to work

Fist make sure you put in SpringApplication Configuration

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableJpaAuditing

Second, make sure you use this annotation on your needed entities

  @Entity
  @Table
  @EntityListeners(AuditingEntityListener.class)

Answer 2

The @CreatedDate won't work by itself if you just put @EntityListeners(AuditingEntityListener.class) on your entities. In order, it'll work you have to do a little more configuration.

Let's say that in your DB the field of @CreatedDate is String type, and you want to return the user that is currently logged in as a value for @CreatedDate, then do this:

public class CustomAuditorAware implements AuditorAware<String> {

    @Override
    public String getCurrentAuditor() {
        String loggedName = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getName();
        return loggedName;
    }

}

You can write there any functionality that fits your needs, but you certainly must have a bean that reference to a class that implements `AuditorAware

The second part and equally important, is to create a bean that returns that class with annotation of @EnableJpaAuditing, like this:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaAuditing
public class AuditorConfig {

    @Bean
    public CustomAuditorAware auditorProvider(){
        return new CustomAuditorAware();
    }
}

if your poison is XML configuration then do this:

<bean id="customAuditorAware" class="org.moshe.arad.general.CustomAuditorAware" />
    <jpa:auditing auditor-aware-ref="customAuditorAware"/>