DevelopmentFebruary 22, 2014 12:59 PM/by guy After a long time without a post I will write something about Spring dependency injection in Hibernate/JPA entity listeners.
The problem here is that you are not able to just autowire a Spring bean in a Hibernate/JPA entity listener, because Hibernate for instance instantiates the entity listener before Spring can autowire the beans and therefore all the autowired beans are null.
I found some some other ways to autowire the beans which specify which listeners should be registered in a Hibernate configuration class, but the way I will show you in this post is the simplest one in my opinion. Other opinions are also welcome :wink: I found the idea here at Stackoverflow.
In the following example I want to show you how to add a JPA listener which always sets a creation date and a modification date when a entity is created/modified.
Ok lets start by a simple abstract JPA entity:
Here there is nothing special except the :
And here you already see that we have an autowired Spring bean which returns the current date. This entity listener listens for the pre-update and the pre-persist events and sets the according dates. There is also the static call to the autowire method of the . That's the core of the dependency injection in the Hibernate entity listeners:
This implements the interface from Spring with which the helper is able to get a reference of the application context. The autowire method takes the class instance which needs to be autowired and the beans which need to be autowired. (This...
