EclipseLink: autoApply Converters Are Not Applied To Attributes Declared In Entity Class With Primitive Types

(Doc ID 2299530.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 23, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle TopLink - Version 12.2.1.0.0 to 12.2.1.3.0 [Release 12c]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

When converters are configured using annotation @Converter(autoApply=true), the values
written to the database are not converted if it is a simple type (int or boolean).

This issue is also described in:
Bug 443546 - Converter autoApply does not work for primitive types
and marked as fixed in EclipseLink 2.6.0.

But the issue can be replicated in WLS 12.2.1.2.0 (with EclipseLink 2.6.x) also.

Cause

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