Spring Boot 2 generic JPA converter to serialize and deserialize an entity attribute as JSON

Generic JPA converter for JSON. Uses Spring Boot, JPA with Hibernate.

Sometimes an entity attribute is not just a native or simple type like a Date, Long or String. A Java POJO like structure is required as an attribute. One might argue that a separate entity should be created which results in a separate table and a reference to it should be used like in a OneToOne or ManyToOne or OneToMany type of relationship. But there are special business conditions where creating a separate entity is not feasible. So, storing this entity as a JSON string is a good solution.

This repository contains code which accompanies the blog post Spring Boot 2 generic JPA converter to serialize and deserialize an entity attribute as JSON

Getting Started

This is a typical maven project. Download the source as a zip file or checkout the code and import as an Existing Maven project in your IDE.

Prerequisites

• Java 8
• Spring Boot 2
• MySQL
• Not mandatory, but you can use any suitable IDE like Spring STS

Built With

• Spring Boot
• Thymeleaf - Rendering HTML pages

Authors

• Sunit Katkar - Initial work - Sunit Katkar

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License - see the LICENSE file for details

Request

You are free to fork this repository, but please drop me a note at sunitkatkar@gmail.com