Is it possible to have multiple hibernate.properties files?

DavidNDuffy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 2:45 pm

Is it possible to have multiple hibernate.properties files?
Or, is there another (better?) way to accomplish the same thing?

I know I can have multiple hibernate.cfg.xml files (and I do) but I would also like to have multiple properties files (or avoid using the main one in certain scenarios).

The reason I ask is because I need to have a different setup for running unit tests than for running in a container but all of my code is in the same package structure and when my unit test sets up the Hibernate config tries to use a property from the main hibernate.properties file which is only valid for running in the container.

Thank-you.

vidigiani · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:08 pm **Posts:** 32

What about having a hibernate.properties.production and hibernate.properties.test. Then you can have an ant task that copies the hibernate.properties.test to hibernate.properties when running tests. But when building production code it instead copies hibernate.properties.production?

DavidNDuffy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:10 pm

Thank-you for the suggestion,
Here is what I found (and did) in case anyone else is interested:

Code:

URL configFileURL = Class.class.getResource(TEST_CONFIG_PATH);
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(Class.class.getResourceAsStream(TEST_PROPERTIES_PATH));
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(bis);
bis.close();

Configuration configuration = (new Configuration().setProperties(properties)).configure(configFileURL);
SessionFactory factory = configuration.buildSessionFactory();

It seems to work nicely for me.

micho2001 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:39 pm

Quote:

Here is what I found (and did) in case anyone else is interested:

If you decide (someday) to use XML config instead of the properties file check this method:

http://hibernate.bluemars.net/hib_docs/api/net/sf/hibernate/cfg/Configuration.html#configure(java.lang.String)[/url]

DavidNDuffy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 9:45 pm

Yes, thank-you, I suppose I could add everything to the .cfg.xml file.
I just wanted to use the existing properties file with a couple changes rather than having to fill in everything I wanted as xml.
It works the way I have it which required the least amount of typing.

Thanks