@Id return 0

[tough night]

I'm trying to learn "spring boot" and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or I don't understand something. I'm creating an entity class with variables with ID among others, so I want to automatically generate the ID using

@ID
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
private int id;

and to get the id value I created the get method

private int getId(){ return id};

But every time in every object ID equals 0,
I tried using other types, changed Int to Integer and every time Id was 0 or zero.
Am I doing something wrong? Maybe I can't return this auto-generated ID?

[mystic inlet]

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[echo slate]

You can't get the ID of an object before saving it. This is because the ID is generated from a sequence which Hibernate does not fetch the value for on just an object initialization (at least not by default)

[fringe dagger]

yep, it needs to be persisted before it can be used