SINGLE_TABLE inheritance strategy using enums as discriminator value

Question

Is it possible to use an enum as a discriminator value when using SINGLE_TABLE inheritance strategy?

Answer 1

yup ,when you define discriminator the annotation's option are name and discrimatorType

@DiscriminatorColumn (name="MYDISCRIMINATOR", discriminatorType= DiscriminatorType.INTEGER)

of which DiscriminatorType can only be:

DiscriminatorType.STRING
DiscriminatorType.CHAR
DiscriminatorType.INTEGER

unfortunate I didn't see this yesterday but well. That's the way it is