Feature Request: Access to original values in @PreUpdate (like Entity Framework)

[jtscorpjaxon]

Many modern ORMs provide access to previous state in lifecycle hooks:

• Entity Framework: entry.OriginalValues
• Ruby on Rails: attribute_was
• Sequelize: _previousDataValues

JPA requires complex workarounds (Interceptors/Envers) for this common use case.

Proposed API:

@PreUpdate
public void beforeUpdate(EntityState state) {
    Object oldValue = state.getOriginalValue("name");
    Object newValue = this.name;
}

[mp911de]

@PreUpdate is a JPA annotation. You might want to place your request at https://github.com/jakartaee/persistence/issues.