Adding an enum as a class property in HBM

Question

I am trying to create a class in HBM file which contains an Enum as a field.

The HBM is similar to this:

<class name="a.b.c.myObject" table="OBJECT" >
       <property name="myEnum" column="EXAMPLE" type="a.b.c.myEnum" />
</class>

and let's say that this is the Enum:

public enum myEnum{
    a, b, c;
}

The problem is that in the DB I expected to see the String value of that enum (a,b or c) but instead I got the raw data of that field.

How can I solve that?

Answer 1

Here is the solution with Hibernate 3.6.x :

<class name="a.b.c.myObject" table="OBJECT">
  <property name="myEnum" column="EXAMPLE">
    <type name="org.hibernate.type.EnumType">
      <param name="enumClass">a.b.c.myEnum</param>
    </type>       
  </property>
</class>