How to get database metadata from entity manager

Question

I have an app which is using hibernate and jpa. I need to find out which db it is connected to so that some native sql query i execute based on db say for eg. oracle and postgre

Answer 1

if anybody else (like me) wants to try to get some jdbc information and you are using hibernate 4.x, you might try it that way:

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import org.hibernate.jdbc.Work;
public class ConnectionInfo implements Work {

public String dataBaseUrl;
public String dataBaseProductName;
public String driverName;

@Override
public void execute(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
    dataBaseUrl = connection.getMetaData().getURL();
    dataBaseProductName = connection.getMetaData().getDatabaseProductName();
    driverName = connection.getMetaData().getDriverName();
}

public String getDataBaseProductName() {
    return dataBaseProductName;
}

public void setDataBaseProductName(String dataBaseProductName) {
    this.dataBaseProductName = dataBaseProductName;
}

public String getDataBaseUrl() {
    return dataBaseUrl;
}

public void setDataBaseUrl(String dataBaseUrl) {
    this.dataBaseUrl = dataBaseUrl;
}

public String getDriverName() {
    return driverName;
}

public void setDriverName(String driverName) {
    this.driverName = driverName;
}
}

Now you can retrieve your information like that:

// -- snip
org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerImpl entityManagerImpl =  (org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerImpl) genericDBAccess.getEntityManager().getDelegate();
    Session session = entityManagerImpl.getSession();
    connectionInfo = new ConnectionInfo();
    session.doWork(connectionInfo);
// -- snap

Hope that helps! I drove crazy finding this information....