Hibernate interceptor or listener with Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA

Question

I\'d like to run some checks prior to saving a collection of children of an object (cascade = all).

I am using Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA and was wondering what

Answer 1

Hello,

First of all you can check the: https://www.baeldung.com/database-auditing-jpa where every options is explained in detail.

I would personally recommend Hibernate Interceptor, easy to use and understand. Depending on the complexity of the project, in most cases it will do.

In order to configure this in your application you simply need to add: spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.ejb.interceptor = path.to.interceptor (in application.properties). The interceptor itself should be @Component.

As long as the interceptor doesn't actually use any beans. Otherwise it is a bit more complicated but I would be more than happy to offer the solution.

Don't forget to add in application-test.properties, an EmptyInterceptor to not use the logging system (or whatever you want to use it for) in tests (which wouldn't be very helpful).

Hope this was of use to you.

As a final note: always update your Spring / Hibernate versions (use the latest as possible) and you will see that most code will become redundant as newer versions try to reduce the configurations as much as possible.