How to use Auditing in JPA/Spring-Data JPA?

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I am using JPA & Spring-Data JPA in a project. I have one table wherei Insert and then update the data. However i need the auditing information to save the state of all the objects i.e. I need state information of insert and all subsequent updates in another Table. I know I can use triggers in database to do this. However, Can this be done using JPA/Spring Data JPA?

Any help would be appreciated.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '11 at 11:27

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JPA spec (section 3.5) defines lifecycle callback methods:

prePersist
postPersist
preRemove
postRemove
preUpdate
postUpdate
postLoad

which are probably the closest thing you will find in pure JPA. SpringData itself has further auditing capabilities which are at a slightly higher level of abstraction. It describes these in section 2.4 of the reference manual.

answered Jun 23 '11 at 11:27

Pace

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Although the JPA spec will allow you to do this, Spring Data Jpa has a very slick mechanism built in to do just this: http://static.springsource.org/spring-data/data-jpa/docs/current/reference/html/#jpa.auditing – bh5k Aug 22 '12 at 23:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '11 at 12:53

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See,

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Auditing_and_Security

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Advanced_Topics#History

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/Auditing

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/History

answered Jun 23 '11 at 12:53

James

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I saw the above links and they specify the History Feature can be used in JPA but i saw links of only TOPLINK and ECLIPSELINK. Any idea if it can be used with Hibernate also? – Abhishek Jun 23 '11 at 15:09

How to use Auditing in JPA/Spring-Data JPA?

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