[JPA - Hibernate] Mapping Enum to Column

[Gregg Bolinger]

I have an Enum:

public enum ProductAttributeFormType {
  TEXT,
  TEXTAREA,
  SELECT,
  MULTISELECT
}

And then I have the following Entity class:

@Entity
public class ProductAttribute {
 
  private Integer id;
  private String label;
 
  private ProductAttributeFormType productAttributeFormType;
 
  @ManyToMany
  private List<ProductAttributeValue> productAttributeValues;
}

In order for the productAttributeFormType to just have its value in a column is it as simple as:

@Column(name="FormType")
private ProductAttributeFormType productAttributeFormType;

Or is there more to it?

Thanks,

[Gregg Bolinger]

Ran across this. A bit more to it than I though but makes sense.

[Gregg Bolinger]

On further inspection, I'm not sure that will work for my use case. So still looking for answers.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Ok, after some testing, this appears to work...

@Enumerated(value = EnumType.STRING)
private ProductAttributeType productAttributeType;

[Rodrigo Lopes]

Yes, that's the way