How to read bytea image data from PostgreSQL with JPA?

Question

I have PostgreSQL database and there is column \'image\' with datatype \'bytea\'. I cannot modify columns or database configurations. JPA annotated POJO contains followign m

Answer 1

Try to annotate you entity with @Lob

@Lob
@Column(name="image")
private byte[] image;

If you are using hibernate implementation you can add @Type(type="org.hibernate.type.BinaryType") in column too.

@Lob
@Column(name="image")
@Type(type="org.hibernate.type.BinaryType")
private byte[] image;