Audit feature in MongoDB Panache Quarkus (similar to spring @CreatedDate and @LastModifiedDate)

[nitinty]

I'm working on a project where we need to migrate it from spring to Quarkus. We are trying to use MongoDB Panache.

We want to add the auditing while saving/updating the entity by using createdAt/modifiedAt in collection. Do we have anything similar to @CreatedDate and @LastModifiedDate like we have in Spring.

[quarkus-bot[bot]]

/cc @FroMage (panache), @geoand (spring), @loicmathieu (mongodb,panache)

[loicmathieu]

If you use the repository pattern, you can add an annotation to the method making the update and use a CDI interceptor instead.

[nitinty]

I hope your are taking about the below approach, By using @UpdateTimestamp and bind it with interceptor where we can update the timestamp. But here is the point, Is it good approach to initialize the entity level property, we have to use method level annotation ? (As interceptor not invoked with field level annotation).

@ApplicationScoped
public class TestService {

@Inject
TestRepository testRepository;

**@UpdateTimestamp**
public void persistEntity(TestEntity entity) {
    testRepository.persist(entity);
}

}

[loicmathieu]

Yes, you get the idea.

[nitinty]

@loicmathieu

There is one more disadvantage with this repo pattern I have to define every method on RepoImpl even though I can use this method directly by repo object. Can you please suggest me any other approach ? Or is there any way to initialize it before saving/updating entity via any EntityCallback like we have in spring org.springframework.data.mapping.callback.EntityCallback

please assist.

@ApplicationScoped
public class UserRepositoryImpl implements UserRepository{
    @Override
    **@UpdateTimestamp**
    public void persistEntity(UserEntity userEntity) {
        UserRepository.super.persist(userEntity);
    }
}

[loicmathieu]

I cannot see any other way.
If you have multiple repositories, you can create an abstract repository that does that.