Spring Boot: Hibernate and Flyway boot order

Question

I have created Spring application. Pom xml is attached.

It has a config like this (below) and some db/migration/V1__init.sql for Flyway db migration tool.

It has hsqldb in-memory database and it is created after application is started. It is clean after creation.

I want Hibernate to create a schema based on entity classes and then Flyway fills the tables. Now Flyway starts V1__init.sql before tables is created and throw an exception. How can I change this order or what solution can I do?

spring.datasource.testWhileIdle = true
spring.datasource.validationQuery = SELECT 1
spring.jpa.show-sql = true
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = create-drop
spring.jpa.hibernate.naming-strategy = org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect

pom.xml:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
    <relativePath/>
</parent>

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
        <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
        <version>4.3.11.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.5.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId>
        <artifactId>thymeleaf-spring4</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- For using 'LEGACYHTML5' mode in Thymeleaf -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.sourceforge.nekohtml</groupId>
        <artifactId>nekohtml</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.21</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
        <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.01</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.flywaydb</groupId>
        <artifactId>flyway-core</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.3.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Answer 1

I had the same issue.

I wanted my schema to be created by hibernate because of it's database independence. I already went through the trouble of figuring out a nice schema for my application in my jpa classes, I don't like repeating myself.

But I want some data initialization to be done in a versioned manner which flyway is good at.

Spring boot runs flyway migrations before hibernate. To change it I overrode the spring boot initializer to do nothing. Then I created a second initializer that runs after hibernate is done. All you need to do is add this configuration class:

import org.flywaydb.core.Flyway;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.flyway.FlywayMigrationInitializer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.DependsOn;

@Configuration
public class MigrationConfiguration {


    /**
     * Override default flyway initializer to do nothing
     */
    @Bean
    FlywayMigrationInitializer flywayInitializer(Flyway flyway) {
        return new FlywayMigrationInitializer(flyway, (f) ->{} );
    }


    /**
     * Create a second flyway initializer to run after jpa has created the schema
     */
    @Bean
    @DependsOn("entityManagerFactory")
    FlywayMigrationInitializer delayedFlywayInitializer(Flyway flyway) {
        return new FlywayMigrationInitializer(flyway, null);
    }


}

That code needs java 8, If you have java 7 or earlier, replace (f)->{} with an inner class that implements FlywayMigrationStrategy

Of course you can do this in xml just as easily.

Make sure to add this to your application.properties:

flyway.baselineOnMigrate = true