How to customize hibernate @ElementCollection envers audit table name?

Question

I'm currently using Hibernate & Envers version 5.2.9.Final . I want to use @ElementCollection with a custom table name for both the collection and the audit table .

What I know so far is that modifying default table names has a variety of annotations to work with: For the entity itself there are the annotations @Table and @SecondaryTable as well as the corresponding envers annotations @AuditTable and @SecondaryAuditTable. For changing the table name of an element collection there is the @CollectionTable annotaion. I have not been able to find a corresponding envers annotation so far. So my question is:

How can I change the name for a hibernate @ElementCollection envers audit table?

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Additional info

In the hibernate envers ticket which tracks the adding of auditing support for element collections, the same question was asked back in 2013 but not answered.

A code snippet to make my setup clear:

@Entity
@Table(name = "\"user\"")
@SecondaryTable(name = "\"user_secondary\"")
@Audited
@AuditTable("\"user_audit\"")
@SecondaryAuditTable(secondaryTableName = "user_secondary",
        secondaryAuditTableName = "\"user_secondary_audit\"")
public class User {

    // ... stuff like id and other fields ...

    @ElementCollection
    @CollectionTable(name = "\"user_references\"")
    private Map<String, Long> references = new HashMap<>();
    // TODO FIXME how to get a custom name for the audit table?

    // ... more stuff like getters and setters
}

Hibernate generates all tables as intended, yet the collecction audit table is named 'user_references_AUD' while I would like to get the name 'user_references_audit' like for the other tables.

I'm also aware of the global settings affecting the audit table prefix or suffix , but that is only a last resort for my use case.

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Update

As suggested I added a feature request to Hibernate JIRA.

Answer 1

That is because Envers has no complement for @CollectionTable .

You are welcomed to add a JIRA requesting that we add a complementing annotation and I can look at what is needed to add the functionality. Just at a glance, it shouldn't require too much as it merely needs to feed into the generated Envers entity table name for the collection middle entity.