Hibernate String Primary Key with Annotation

Question

I am trying to create a Privilege class with Annotations whose Primary Key is a String. I will assign them manually while inserting. Therefore no need for hibernate to generate a value for it. I'm trying to do something like that:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(generator = "assigned")
@Column(name = "ROLE_NAME", nullable = false)
private String roleName;

But it throws that exception:

Caused by: org.hibernate.AnnotationException: Unknown Id.generator: assigned

How can I configure a String primary key with annotations?

Answer 1

Since the roleName is not auto-generated, you should simply not annotate it with @GeneratedValue:

@Id
@Column(name = "ROLE_NAME", nullable = false)
private String roleName;