[postgis-users] Using Postgis with hibernate

[David Robison]

I am running a standalone console application which uses Hibernate3 and connects to a postgis database. I have been successful in reading the geomoetry from the database when I define my geometry column in Hibernate as

    <property
        name="theGeom"
        type="java.lang.String"
        formula="AsText(force_2d(the_geom))"
        length="-1"
    />

This returns the geometry as a WKT string that can easily be read by my application. However, using this definition I am not able to set the value of the geometry. I have read the mailing list about postgis and hibernate and am just more confused. Is there a simple way to define the geometry column to Hibernate to make getting and setting the geometry simple? I would even be pleased with referencing the geometry data as a byte[] or a String from within Java.

Any help and/or clarification would be appreciated.

David Robison
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