How to get the default schema of a SQL connection?

Question

From within a java code - where I already have a connection to a database - I need to find the default schema of the connection.

I have the following code that gives me

Answer 1

Please use connection.getMetaData().getURL() method which returns String like

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8

We can parse it easily and get the schema name. It works for all JDBC drivers.