Enum in Hibernate, persisting as an enum

Question

In my MySQL database, there\'s the column \"gender enum(\'male\',\'female\')\"

I\'ve created my enum \"com.mydomain.myapp.enums.Gender\", and in my Person

Answer 1

Try to use @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) and define your enum like this

enum Gender {
  male,
  female
}

Note lower case values.

This will work at least with VARCHAR columns. It will store enum as string 'male' or 'female'.