How to set a default entity property value with Hibernate

Question

How do I set a default value in Hibernate field?

Answer 1

One solution is to have your getter check to see if whatever value you are working with is null (or whatever its non-initialized state would be) and if it's equal to that, just return your default value:

public String getStringValue(){
     return (this.stringValue == null) ? "Default" : stringValue;
}