hibernate not generate auto increment constraint on mysql table

Question

I have been searching through different forums for the problem and had tried different solutions but i am still unable to find any correct answer for my problem.

I am using hibernate4 annotations for mapping my entities. everything works fine but only auto increment key is not detected when tables are created using hibernate in mysql.

i have following code:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(unique = true, nullable = false)
private int responseId;

i also have tried

@Id
@GenericGenerator(name="generator", strategy="increment")
@GeneratedValue(generator="generator")
private int responseId;

With hibernate it works absolutely fine, id is automatically assigned to row, but in mysql table it have no AutoIncrement Constraint. I have to mark field as AI manually. This becomes problematic when i manually insert record for testing or use jdbc statements for the table. Plz let me know what i am missing in configuration that is preventing hibernate to impose AutoIncrement Contraint on respective column.

Answer 1

Use the IDENTITY generator, and use the columnDefinition attribute of @Column to specify the type of the column:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(columnDefinition = "MEDIUMINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT")
private int responseId;