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mysqlhibernatedatejava-8localtime

How to store LocalTime in hibernate

I have an entity that has a variable of type LocalTime and I would like to store it in database. So I have two questions:

  1. What data type will the field in mysql be?
  2. What annotation to use for entity?

I do not care for date at all whatsoever.

Solution

  • hibernate-java8 provide a LocalTimeType for persist a LocalTime field.Since hibernate-java8-5.2.+ has been merged into the hibernate-core module.

    Usage

    saving LocalTime as sql time column. 

    @Column
private LocalTime time;

    saving LocalTime as sql varchar column.

    @Column(columnDefinition = "varchar(8)")
private LocalTime time;