spring - Loading Image into byte array in entity bean -

i using spring data jpa , hibernate retrieve entities db table. 1 of entity fields path image located on filesystem. possible load image byte array entity? e.g

@entity @table(name="users") public class user {    @id    @generatedvalue    int id;    string name;    string picturename;     @transient    byte[] image;     // other properties    public void setpicturename(string picturename)    {         string path="d:\\images\\";         file f = new file(path + picturename);         this.image = new byte[(int)f.length()];          fileutility.tobytearray(f,this.image); //custom class          this.picture = picture;    } //other stuff } 

i tried jpa byte array image field comes null while else fine.

yes, possible, have map whatever column has picture name hibernate can populate it.

thus, if have column called "picture_name" entity should have:

@column(name="picture_name") private string picturename; 

then, when hibernate loads entity, call setpicturename method , run code load file byte array.