Spring JPA audting is not invoked - spring

Question

I have implemented spring data jpa auditing. Below is my configuration file
#Configuration
#ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.myapplication.test")
#EnableWebMvc
#EnableTransactionManagement
#EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = "com.myapplication.test.repository")
#EnableJpaAuditing(auditorAwareRef = "auditorProvider", dateTimeProviderRef = "dateTimeProvider")
#EnableSpringDataWebSupport
public class ApplicationConfiguration {
private static final Logger loggger = Logger.getLogger(ApplicationConfiguration.class);
#Autowired
private ConfigurationProperties configProps;
#Bean("auditorProvider")
public AuditorAware<Integer> auditorProvider() {
return () -> {
AuthenticationToken authentication = (AuthenticationToken) SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
return (authentication != null && authentication.isAuthenticated()) ? authentication.getUser().getUserId() : null;
};
}
#Bean
public DateTimeProvider dateTimeProvider() {
return () -> GregorianCalendar.from(ZonedDateTime.now());
}
}
Here is my entity super class
#MappedSuperclass
#EntityListeners(AuditingEntityListener.class)
public abstract class BaseEntity {
#JsonIgnore
#Column(name = "created_by", updatable = false)
private Integer createdBy;
#JsonIgnore
#CreationTimestamp
#Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
#Column(name = "created_on", updatable = false)
private Date createdOn;
#JsonIgnore
#Column(name = "last_updated_by")
private Integer updatedBy;
#JsonIgnore
#UpdateTimestamp
#Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
#Column(name = "last_updated_on")
private Date updatedOn;
}
auditorProvider is getting the user id from the Spring Security context. I have used spring-security-oauth2.
below the versions of the libraries I am having
<spring.version>4.3.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
<hibernate.version>5.2.9.Final</hibernate.version>
<springsecurity.version>4.1.4.RELEASE</springsecurity.version>
<springsecurityoauth2.version>2.0.12.RELEASE</springsecurityoauth2.version>
When I save an entity the auditing methods are not getting called(in debug) and created/updated fields are not updated in the table.

Answer 1

Instead of using the hibernate annotations, you should use the spring data ones like:
#Column(name = "created_date", nullable = false, updatable = false)
#CreatedDate
private long createdDate;
#Column(name = "modified_date")
#LastModifiedDate
private long modifiedDate;
This always worked for me, as specified in this tutorial: Jpa Auditing