Spring Data MongoDB Annotation @CreatedDate isn't working, when ID is assigned manually

Question

I\'m trying to use auditing to save dateCreated and dateUpdated in my objects, but since I set ID manually, there\'s some additional w

Answer 1

Your code is working as expected. After you've implemented Persistable you can see that @CreatedDate annotation is working.

Sure that createdDate is null on the second call of save because the object already exists in the database and you updated it with createdDate = null. As you can see from the documentation for @CreatedDate:

@CreatedDate annotation. This identifies the field whose value is set when the entity is persisted to the database for the first time.

So not to overwrite your createdDate with null on the second call you should retrieve your customer from the database with c = repository.findOne("test_id"); and then update it.