# Another attempt .. adding custom attributes to a property/column?

**URL:** <https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/another-attempt-adding-custom-attributes-to-a-property-column/3910>\
**Category:** Hibernate ORM\
**Created:** [March 18, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/another-attempt-adding-custom-attributes-to-a-property-column/3910 "2020-03-18T22:52:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/another-attempt-adding-custom-attributes-to-a-property-column/3910/1 "2020-03-18T22:52:57Z")

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I made an earlier attempt to ask about a Hib 5.4/JPA equivalent to the .hbm.xml “meta” attribute tag…

```auto
<meta attribute="foo.bar.baz"/>

```

to no avail. From a PersistentClass you can get the properties from which you can get the meta attributes (Property.getMetaAttributes()) … but how can you set a meta attribute when using JPA annotations?

If the answer is its simply not available in Hibernate 5.4 then please let me know.

thanks