can Locale object be stored in database with hibernate

Question

I have following entity:

@RooEntity
Class X {
    @NotNull
    private Locale locale;
}

Is it possible to store toString() representation of Locale object in database and when retrieving I can still get Locale object?

Can I use @Basic annotation here?

Answer 1

You can persist the localeString (or language) to the DB and recreate the Locale object after you fetch your entity.

As easy as this:

@RooEntity
Class X {
    @NotNull
    @Basic
    private String localeString;



    ....
   public Locale getLocaleFromString() {
        return new Locale(localeString);
   }
}