jakartaee/persistence 3.2-DRAFT01-3.2.0-B01-RELEASE

Jakarta Persistence 3.2.0-B01

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This release contains following changes:

• Adds support for Java record types as embeddable classes
• Adds support for java.time.Instant and java.time.Year and Clarifies JDBC mappings for basic types
• Adds union, intersect, except, cast, left, right, and replace for Jakarta Persistence QL and criteria queries
• Adds || string concatenation operator to Jakarta Persistence QL
• Adds subquery(EntityType) and joins on EntityType Criteria API
• Adds support for specifying null precedence when ordering Jakarta Persistence QL and criteria queries
• Adds getSingleResultOrNull() to Query, TypedQuery, StoredProcedureQuery
• Adds entities(), classes() and columns() to NamedNativeQuery
• Adds lockMode() to EntityResult with the default being OPTIMISTIC
• Adds getVersion(), isLoaded(), load(), isInstance() and getClass() methods to PersistenceUnitUtil
• Adds overload of entity() accepting an entity name to Metamodel
• Adds javax.annotation.processing.Generated to the list of defined annotations on StaticMetamodel
• Adds constants for managed types, named queries, named graphs and named result set mappings to generated StaticMetamodel
• Adds LocalDateTime and Instant to supported Version types
• Adds where(), having(), and(), and or() overloads accepting List to CriteriaQuery and CriteriaBuilder
• Adds equalTo() and notEqualTo() to Expression
• Adds concat() overload accepting list of expressions and extract() to CriteriaBuilder
• Adds Graph interface as parent of EntityGraph and Subgraph and moved common operations there
• Adds addAttributeNode(), removeAttributeNode(), addTreatedSubgraph(), addElementSubgraph(), addTreatedElementSubgraph(),
  addMapKeySubgraph(), and addTreatedMapKeySubgraph() methods to Graph
• Adds getReference overload, runWithConnection() and callWithConnection() to EntityManager
• Adds find(), refresh(), lock() overloads to EntityManager taking newly introduced FindOption, RefreshOption,
  and LockOption respectively
• Adds setCacheStoreMode(), and setCacheRetrieveMode() methods to EntityManager and Query
• Adds runInTransaction() and callInTransaction() to EntityManagerFactory
• Adds programmatic API to obtain EntityManagerFactory using PersistenceConfiguration
• Adds constants for properties defined by the specification to the PersistenceConfiguration
• Adds SchemaManager API
• Adds options member to elements which result in DDL generation
• Adds EnumeratedValue allowing custom mapping of fields of Java enums
• Adds comment and check members to table and column annotations, along with CheckConstraint
• Made the name member of TableGenerator and SequenceGenerator optional
• Clarifies the primary key types supported for each GenerationType
• Clarifies availability of SEQUENCE, TABLE and UUID generated IDs on PrePersist
• Clarifies semantics of numeric literals and Adds support for bi and bd suffixes
• Clarifies rules around distinction of entity names and identification variables and case-sensitivity in Jakarta Persistence QL queries
• Clarifies the semantics of Bindable.ENTITY_TYPE in javadoc
• Entity and embeddable classes may now be static inner classes
• Primary key classes are no longer required to be public and serializable
• Pulls getParameters() up from CriteriaQuery to CommonAbstractCriteria
• Fixes wildcard types in addSubgraph and addAttributeNode in Graph
• Fixes lower type bounds to the Path.get entity argument X
• Fixes example code in the javadoc of AttributeOverrides
• Partially fixes raw types warnings through the API
• Improves AsciiDoc formatting and fixes typos through the specification document

New Contributors

• @hantsy
• @dmatej
• @krichter722

Full Changelog: 3.1-3.1.0-RELEASE...3.2-DRAFT01-3.2.0-B01-RELEASE