Issue with Spring Data (Spring Boot) and Joda Time field mapping - spring

Question

I have some entities with Joda DateTime fields.
When trying to start the application, I get the following error:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties()Ljava/util/Map;
[...]
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties()Ljava/util/Map;
at org.jadira.usertype.spi.shared.AbstractUserTypeHibernateIntegrator.integrate(AbstractUserTypeHibernateIntegrator.java:192) ~[usertype.spi-6.0.1.GA.jar:na]
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:280) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.boot.internal.SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.build(SessionFactoryBuilderImpl.java:444) ~[hibernate-core-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
at org.hibernate.jpa.boot.internal.EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.build(EntityManagerFactoryBuilderImpl.java:879) ~[hibernate-entitymanager-5.0.11.Final.jar:5.0.11.Final]
I tried to put
spring.jpa.properties.jadira.usertype.autoRegisterUserTypes=true
in the application.properties and it didn't work. So I added the Hibernate annotation into my entity class:
#Type(type="org.jadira.usertype.dateandtime.joda.PersistentDateTime")
private DateTime from;
and it didn't work.
My pom.xml (partial):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>joda-time</groupId>
<artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jadira.usertype</groupId>
<artifactId>usertype.core</artifactId>
<version>6.0.1.GA</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Jackson json data bind -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-jaxrs-json-provider</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>
</dependency>
I also tried Jadira usertype.core 6.0.0.GA, 5.0.0.GA and 4.0.0.GA but nothing changes. How can I fix that?
====================EDIT
Debugging led me to line 192 of the class AbstractUserTypeHibernateIntegrator
String isEnabled = (String)sessionFactory.getProperties().get("jadira.usertype.autoRegisterUserTypes");
My debugger says the value assigned to isEnabled is the "true". However, the execution jumps to the finally clause: ConfigurationHelper.setCurrentSessionFactory((SessionFactory)null)

Answer 1

The signature of SessionFactoryImplementor.getProperties() changed in 5.2 to return Map rather than Properties. This leads to a NoSuchMethodError if hibernate version is lower than that. And also make sure to use latest jadira jar which is compatible with Hibernate 5.2
Add these dependencies in your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>5.2.0.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jadira.usertype</groupId>
<artifactId>usertype.core</artifactId>
<version>6.0.1.GA</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

The reason for the above issue is that you forgot to add the entitiyManager dependency.
Try adding the below dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>4.3.8.Final</version>
</dependency>

Answer 3

This is what worked for me with spring boot, the problem is that Spring boot version 1.5.4 data-jpa starter has hibernate-core and hibernate-entitymanager version 5.0.12 which is incompatible with jadira version 6.0.1.GA so we have to override these in pom.xml and provide version 5.2.0.Final at least ( I have used 5.2.10.Final in the code as this is the latest one at the time of writting).
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>joda-time</groupId>
<artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jadira.usertype</groupId>
<artifactId>usertype.core</artifactId>
<version>6.0.1.GA</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Jackson json data bind -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-jaxrs-json-provider</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring boot version 1.5.4 has hibernate-core 5.0.12 which is incompatible with jadira version 6.0.1.GA -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>5.2.10.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring boot version 1.5.4 has hibernate-entitymanager 5.0.12 which is incompatible with jadira version 6.0.1.GA -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>5.2.10.Final</version>
</dependency>