Getting DB informations - how to

gigi · **Joined:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:12 pm **Posts:** 3

Hi,
I would like to know how could I get db informations (table names and column attributes) via Hibernate.
I've seen in the package org.hibernate.mapping, the class Column; It would be nice.

Is there anyone who can help me?
Many thanx.

Gigi

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Hibernate version: 3.0

Name and version of the database you are using: MySql

kgignatyev · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:10 pm

Please clarify if you need DB information or mapping information.
If you want to explore DB than you can get JDBC metadata by calling session.connection().getMetaData() and go from there

gigi · **Joined:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:12 pm **Posts:** 3

Thanks for the answer.

Yes, I know I can obtain all the informations from the DB with the JDBC but I would like to use Hibernate objects instead of JDBC o.
Maybe I could use mapping; I need only to know table names (or bean), column names, type and length.

In case of mapping, how should I do?

Thanks

Gigi

kgignatyev · **Posted:** Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:46 pm

session.getSessionFactory().getClassMetadata(Class persistentClass)

but not all the mapping information is exposed

jasonperrone · **Joined:** Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:11 am **Posts:** 8

kgignatyev wrote:

Please clarify if you need DB information or mapping information.
If you want to explore DB than you can get JDBC metadata by calling session.connection().getMetaData() and go from there

Hi! I have a question for you. Session no longer has a connection property in 4.x of Hibernate. Any ideas how I would get connection metadata in the later versions of Hibernate?