Env: JPA 1, Hibernate 3.3.x, MySQL 5.x
We auto generate database schema using hbm2ddl export operation. Would it be possible to generate a default value for a certain @Entity member during SQL generation. (e.g. archive field in mytable entity class.
create table mytable (
...
'archive‘ tinyint(1) default ’0 ’,
...
)
There is no portable way to do that and the columnDefinition
"trick" is definitely not a good solution. Actually, setting defaults in the generated DDL is just not a good idea, this would require the provider to go back to the database to see the result after an insert1. Better default in your Java code.
1 Just in case, note that you can tell Hibernate to do that using the @Generated
annotation.