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Is there way to map immutable Value objects like email address using JPA?
@Immutable
@Embeddable
public final class EmailAddress {
private final String value;
public EmailAddress(String value) {
this.value = value;
}
public String getValue() {
return value;
}
@Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
if (this == o) return true;
if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
EmailAddress that = (EmailAddress) o;
return value.equals(that.value);
}
@Override
public int hashCode() {
return value.hashCode();
}
}
Now I get exception on entity save
org.hibernate.InstantiationException: No default constructor for entity: com.domain.EmailAddress
org.hibernate.tuple.PojoInstantiator.instantiate(PojoInstantiator.java:107)
org.hibernate.tuple.component.AbstractComponentTuplizer.instantiate(AbstractComponentTuplizer.java:102)
org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.instantiate(ComponentType.java:515)
org.hibernate.type.ComponentType.deepCopy(ComponentType.java:434)
org.hibernate.type.TypeHelper.deepCopy(TypeHelper.java:68)
org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSaveOrReplicate(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:302)
org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.performSave(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:203)
org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractSaveEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(AbstractSaveEventListener.java:129)
org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3PersistEventListener.saveWithGeneratedId(EJB3PersistEventListener.java:69)
org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:179)
org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.onPersist(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:135)
org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultPersistEventListener.onPersist(DefaultPersistEventListener.java:61)
org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fire