14.3. Mixing Events and Interceptors
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When you want to customize the entity state transition behavior, you have to options:
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- you provide a custom
Interceptor, which is taken into consideration by the default Hibernate event listeners.
For example, the Interceptor#onSave() method is invoked by Hibernate AbstractSaveEventListener.
Or, the Interceptor#onLoad() is called by the DefaultPreLoadEventListener.
- you can replace any given default event listener with your own implementation.
When doing this, you should probably extend the default listeners because otherwise you’d have to take care of all the low-level entity state transition logic.
For example, if you replace the
DefaultPreLoadEventListener with your own implementation, then, only if you call the Interceptor#onLoad() method explicitly, you can mix the custom load event listener with a custom Hibernate interceptor.
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