How should I register custom Hibernate 5 data type (BasicType) when Spring Data is used?

Question

I use Spring Data and decided that I want to create new custom data type that can be used in Hibernate entities. I checked the documentation and choose BasicType an

Answer 1

I use JPA with Spring 4.3.9 and Hibernate 5.0.5 and I use custom property EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.TYPE_CONTRIBUTORS with Spring LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean to override Hibernate BasicTypes.

final Properties jpaProperties = new Properties();
jpaProperties.put(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.TYPE_CONTRIBUTORS, new TypeContributorList() {
    @Override
    public List getTypeContributors() {
         return Lists.newArrayList(new CustomDateTimeTypeContributor());
    }
});
final LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factoryBean = new 
LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
factoryBean.setJpaProperties(jpaProperties);
factoryBean.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdapter);
return factoryBean;