Spring Boot JPA@CreatedDate @LastModifiedDate not being populated when saving the object

The AuditingEntityListener methods are called in the @PrePersist and @PreUpdate phase.

This means they are called just before the insert or update SQL statements are executed.

Read more about JPA events in the Hibernate doc: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.2/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#events-jpa-callbacks

Unit Tests

When using in Tests you have to enable auditing as well on the test

@DataJpaTest
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@EnableJpaAuditing
public class EntityListenerTest {

I had similar issue (Spring Boot 2.2.1 and JUnit5) with null values. Adding @EnableJpaAuditing to test class did not work.

My example (did not copy everything):

@Getter(AccessLevel.PROTECTED)
@Setter(AccessLevel.PROTECTED)
@MappedSuperclass
@EntityListeners(AuditingEntityListener.class)
public class Auditable<U> {

    @CreatedBy
    @Column(name = "created_by", nullable = false)
    private U createdBy;

    @CreatedDate
    @Column(name = "created", nullable = false)
    private OffsetDateTime created;
}

and respective class:

@Getter
@Setter
@Entity
@Table(name="survey_records")
public class SurveyRecord extends Auditable<String> implements Serializable {

I had following configuration for auditing:

@Configuration
@EnableJpaAuditing(auditorAwareRef = "auditorProvider", dateTimeProviderRef = "auditingDateTimeProvider")
public class JpaAuditingConfiguration {

    @Bean(name = "auditingDateTimeProvider")
    public DateTimeProvider dateTimeProvider() {
        return () -> Optional.of(OffsetDateTime.now());
    }

    @Bean
    public AuditorAware<String> auditorProvider() {

To get @CreatedBy and @CreatedDate working inside test only @Import was needed

@DataJpaTest
@Import(JpaAuditingConfiguration.class)
class SurveyRecordRepositoryTest {

Used references:

• https://springbootdev.com/2018/03/13/spring-data-jpa-auditing-with-createdby-createddate-lastmodifiedby-and-lastmodifieddate/

• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/10743#issuecomment-416777423