How to use the Java 8 LocalDateTime with JPA and Hibernate

Question

I have the following class description snippet:

... 
@Column(name = \"invalidate_token_date\")
@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
private LocalDateTime inv         


        

Answer 1

For any Hibernate 5.x users, there is

    org.hibernate
    hibernate-java8
    5.0.0.Final

You don't need to do anything else. Just add the dependency, and the Java 8 time types should work like any other basic types, no annotations required.

private LocalDateTime invalidateTokenDate;

Note: this won't save to timestamp type though. Testing with MySQL, it saves to datetime type.