Support custom Enums mappings

[mipo256]

Assume I have some model, which I want to persist to the database.

public class Example {
    Status stats;
}

where Status is an enum, that looks like this:

public enum Status {
    ACTIVE(1),
    BLOCKED(2),
    PENDING(3);
    private int statusCode; 
    Status(int statusCode) {
        this.statusCode = statusCode;
    }
}

The official documentation states:

Enums get mapped to their name

But what if we need to map it into our custom value, like, in our example, we need to map it into the integer code, not the Enum element name itself. Is there a way to do it?

[schauder]

Related #787

[ctailor2]

I attempted to reproduce the issue by adding an Enum type with a int value to my entity and registering a @WritingConverter and @ReadingConverter to convert it to and from the numeric database type. The converters appear to be working as expected and my entity's Enum typed field is persisted and reloaded appropriately.

If the use case you are seeing this issue on is different and cannot be solved using converters, please provide a Minimimal Reproducable Example, preferable as a Github repository. Make sure to include the database, either as an in memory database or if that is not possible using Testcontainers.

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