hibernate - making type of column in mysql only date and not datetime

Question

I am storing date in mysql database using field of type DATE :

@Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
@Column(name="RECIEVING_DATE")
private Date recieving_date;

// getters and setters

but when hibernate saves it , date is saved in type of datetime format, ie it doesn't store just 2015-02-23 but 2015-02-23 00:00:00.

The code I am using for inserting the date

String recieving_date = request.getParameter("recieving_date");
    DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
    java.sql.Date ds = null;
    try {
        Date date = df.parse(recieving_date);
        ds=new java.sql.Date(date.getTime());
    } catch (ParseException e1) {
        System.out.println("Exception occured in parsing date : "+e1);
    }
    doc_mvmnt.setRecieving_date(ds); 

Now , I can change type by running alter table query myself in database , but that will be painful every time. How can I tell hibernate to keep the type I want . And further , if this is possible , is it possible to define the size of varchar and integers using hibernate. Please help

Answer 1

as I see you are passing only date part of datetime to the recieving_date and surely the type of recieving_date is java.sql.Date (as you passing date of that type to it) so I think one of these annotations should work @Type(type="date") or @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE) and as the second one does not work try the other and give a feedback:

@Column(name="RECIEVING_DATE")
@Type(type="date")
private Date recieving_date;

// getters and setters

if this does not solve the issue then try with modifying the getters and setters for your custom format