JPA Attribute Converter

External

• https://www.thoughts-on-java.org/jpa-21-how-to-implement-type-converter
• https://www.thoughts-on-java.org/jpa-21-type-converter-better-way-to/

Internal

• JPA Concepts

Overview

An attribute converter allows the developer to specify methods to convert between the database and the Java representation of an attribute.

Playground Example

https://github.com/ovidiuf/playground/tree/master/spring/jpa/attribute-converter

Programming Model

@Convert Annotation

@Convert(converter = PayloadConverter.class)
private String payload;