Override audit field @CreatedDate

Question

How to over ride audit field having @CreatedDate. if value is not set for audit field @CreatedDate should be applied other wise it should take the value that has been set. Is there any feature to enable in spring JPA.

Answer 1

It's not elegant, but if you want to reset the value of the @CreatedDate field, you can save the entity after the initial save with any date you like:

  // creates entity
  repository.save(entity);

  // overwrite created date on the entity
  entity.setCreatedDate(getSomeCreatedDate());

  // re-save the entity
  repository.save(entity);