Would be nice to have a default behavior for such a common use case following the principle of convention over configuration.

It took me a while to figure out that the problem of my Save repository method were the properties with the Date constructor. I'm using Neo4j for the record.

You rock, Jasper!

From the README:

One known issue is that default and default_attribute auto-type the attributes they're given, and try to make them either a string or number. So, if you pass a Massachusetts zip code like 02111 into a node in either short form or default attribute form, it will become integer 2111.

As a Massachusetts resident, I vowed never to let this happen in my software, so