As you’ve seen, you can also use UUIDs as primary keys and let Hibernate handle the value generation. Hibernate’s UUIDGenerator supports the creation of version 1 and version 4 UUIDs as defined by IETF RFC 4122. By default, it generates version 4 UUIDs which is a good fit for most use cases. This is the easiest way to map and generate a UUID as a primary key. If you want to take a more detailed look at your mapping options, please read How to generate UUIDs as primary keys with Hibernate. You can then use this Book entity in the same way as you would use an entity that maps a primary key attribute of type Long.
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Most developers prefer numerical primary keys because they are efficient to use and easy to generate. But that doesn’t mean that a primary key has to be a number. UUIDs, for example, have gained some popularity over the recent years. The main advantage of a UUID is its (practical) global uniqueness which provides a huge advantage for distributed systems. If you use the typical, numerical ID that gets incremented for each new record, you need to generate all IDs by the same component of your system or the components need to communicate with each other. With a globally unique UUID, you don’t need all of this. Each component can generate a UUID and there will not be any conflicts.
UUID / GUID (Universally / Globally Unique Identifier) is frequently use in programming. Some of its usage are for creating random file names, session id in web application, transaction id and for record’s primary keys in database replacing the sequence or auto generated number.
To generate UUID in Java we can use the java.util.UUID
class. This class was introduced in JDK 1.5. The UUID.randomUUID()
method return a UUID object. To obtain the value of the random string generated we need to call the UUID.toString()
method.
We can also get the version and the variant of the UUID using the version()
method and variant()
method respectively. Let’s see the code snippet below:
The result of our program is: