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Readonly columns

Applies to ❌ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

jOOQ's code generator may decide that a column is readonly, in case of which using it in various DML statements may subtly change. The following Settings govern this behaviour:

Each one of these flags is of type org.jooq.conf.WriteIfReadonly with these permitted states:

  • WRITE: Write to the column as if it weren't readonly. This effectively turns off the feature.
  • IGNORE: Ignore the column in a relevant statement. This is the default.
  • THROW: Throw an exception if the column is included in a relevant DML statement.

The default behaviour IGNORE is particularly useful when loading POJO data into org.jooq.UpdatableRecord and storing it, while ignoring IDENTITY columns, computed columns, synthetic columns (such as the synthetic ROWIDs), and more:

// If BOOK.ID is an auto-generated identity, we don't want to load NULL values into the record.
create.newRecord(BOOK, bookPojo);

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