This section contains description of Hibernate Date Format.

Hibernate Date Format

This section contains description of Hibernate Date Format.

Hibernate Date Format :

When you save date to the database using hibernate, the date is converted to local time and stored.
Suppose your date is '12-06-2012' ,hibernate inserts it into database in default format of"yyyy-mm-dd".
Timestamp format is yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.

Timestamp format takes 4 byte whereas DtaeTimeFormat takes 8 byte.

Hibernate provides date type annotation which takes format 'yyyy-mm-dd'

@Type(type = "date")

@Column(name = "date_of_join")

private Date dateOfJoin;

Example : In this example we are selecting employee whose id is 1 and displaying date in different format.

package net.roseindia.main;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.*;
import net.roseindia.table.Employee;
import net.roseindia.util.HibernateUtil;
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;

public class HibernateDateFormat {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SessionFactory sessionFactory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();
Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();;

try {
String hql = "SELECT emp from Employee emp WHERE emp.id=1";
Query query1 = session.createQuery(hql);
List<Employee> objectList = query1.list();
Iterator iterator = objectList.iterator();
Employee employee = (Employee) iterator.next();
Date date = employee.getDateOfJoin();
SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");
String dateBufferString = format.format(date);
Date dateBuffer;
try {

dateBuffer = format.parse(dateBufferString);
System.out.println("Database Date Format :" + date);
System.out.println("(dd-MM-yyyy) date: " + format.format(date));
System.out.println("dateBufferSTring " + dateBufferString);
System.out.println("dateBuffer: " + dateBuffer);

} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
} catch (HibernateException e) {
// TODO: handle exception
} finally {
session.clear();
session.close();
}
}
}

Output :

Hibernate: select employee0_.emp_id as emp1_0_, employee0_.date_of_join as date2_0_, employee0_.name as name0_, employee0_.salary as salary0_ from employee employee0_ where employee0_.emp_id=1
Database Date Format :2010-03-12
(dd-MM-yyyy) date: 12-03-2010
dateBufferSTring 12-03-2010
dateBuffer: Fri Mar 12 00:00:00 IST 2010

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