Can I use Spring Data JPA Auditing without the orm.xml file (using JavaConfig instead)?

Question

I\'m trying to get Spring Data Auditing to work in my Spring 3.2.8 / Spring Data 1.5 / Hibernate 4 project.

As per the Spring Data Auditing docs, I\'ve added the

Answer 1

Using Stephan's answer, https://stackoverflow.com/a/26240077/715640,

I got this working using a custom listener.

@Configurable
public class TimestampedEntityAuditListener {

    @PrePersist
    public void touchForCreate(AbstractTimestampedEntity target) {
        Date now = new Date();
        target.setCreated(now);
        target.setUpdated(now);
    }

    @PreUpdate
    public void touchForUpdate(AbstractTimestampedEntity target) {
        target.setUpdated(new Date());
    }
}

And then referencing it in my base class:

@MappedSuperclass
@EntityListeners({TimestampedEntityAuditListener.class})
public abstract class AbstractTimestampedEntity implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.TABLE)
    private Long id;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Date created;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    private Date updated;

    public Date getCreated() {
        return created;
    }

    public void setCreated(Date created) {
        this.created = created;
    }

    public Date getUpdated() {
        return updated;
    }

    public void setUpdated(Date updated) {
        this.updated = updated;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
}

FWIW, I'm using this in a spring-boot project, without an orm.xml file.