JPA Auditing
Explore how to implement JPA auditing in Spring Data JPA to automatically capture and manage entity change metadata such as creation and modification timestamps and user information. Understand how to add auditing properties in POJOs, use annotations like @CreatedBy and @LastModifiedDate, and configure an AuditorAware bean to track users. This lesson guides you through enabling auditing and saving tracked changes for data accountability and historical insight.
JPA auditing in Spring Data JPA enables automatic tracking of entity changes. With minimal configuration, we can easily capture and store information about the data modifications, such as creation and modification timestamps and user information. This auditing feature simplifies auditing requirements and provides valuable insights into data history and accountability.
Auditing metadata in POJOs
We’ll add a few properties in the POJOs that map the auditing metadata columns.
The Book POJO
Let’s add properties like createdBy, createdDate, lastModifiedBy, and lastModifiedDate to the Book class. The underlying JPA will take care of updating the database schema with the corresponding columns in ...