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Get dialect from session (for character escaping)

 
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Hi all,

I need to get the dialect being used in order to make some special characters escape, I need to use different escape technique depending upon the dialect.

For example, for mysql I need to escape underscore like this:

query.replaceAll("_", "\\\\_")

for Oracle and HSQL I need to do like this:

query.replaceAll("_", "\\_")

That's why I need to infer the dialect from the org.hibernate.Session, but I just can't see how to do it with the available JavaDocs.

Thanks a lot!
 
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It is counterintuative to try to do this, hence no method in the API.

Why do you need to escape charactes at all?
 
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Because I don't want to have special characters like underscore to be read as wildcards but literal characters, ex:

I have this data:

index word
1 stop
2 stap
3 st_p

If I put in my hibernate query "select * from data where word like '%st_p%' "

I only want to get the "st_p" result and not the three of them.

Currently I'm using MySQL, so the query that gets the right result looks like "select * from data where work like '%st\\\\_p%' "

In Oracle it would be "select * from data where work like '%st\\_p%' "

That's why I want to escape especial characters according to dialect.

Thanks!


 
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Would it not be much easier to use parameter binding? This way you do not have to care about database-specific escape characters in your queries.
 
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Can you give me an example of what you mean? Please let me know how it would work for the given example.

Thanks
 
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By the way, I currently do this:

sqlQuery.setParameter(e.getKey(), e.getValue() != null ? e.getValue().replaceAll("_", "\\\\_") : null);
 
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And do you do that for every single query? You didn't post a query to go with that, which suggests that you do.
 
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Yes, I do that for every single query. I actually escape the parameters values when they are binded to the org.hibernate.SQLQuery.

My second post was to clarify whay it works different in Oracle and MySql.

However the first question still remains: How can I infer the dialect so I use different escaping in Oracle than MySql.

Thanks!
 
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Hmm - I'm guilty or reading your question too quickly. Now I think about it, underscore is in the ANSI standard, so a dialect will not escape it even with parameter binding. Finding the dialect is a non-starter, there is no API for this supplied by Hibernate. But finding the database is doable. You would need to interogate the database meta data and use a SQL query directly as appropriate.

I'm actually a little surprised HQL doesn't seem to include a cross-platform escape character (or some other mechanism) to escape underscore==wildcard behaviour.
 
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Paul Sturrock wrote:You would need to interogate the database meta data and use a SQL query directly as appropriate.



Any sample about how to do this? I only have the Session to get that metadata.

Cheers
 
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You can get a java.sql.Conneciton from the Session with the connection() method. From that you can get the DatabaseMetaData which should allow you to find out what database type you are on. Not perfect, but I can't think of another way of doing it (short of changing your data).
 
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Thanks a lot, that made the trick. However the connection() method is deprecated. Is there another way to get the connection/metadata?
 
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Thanks a lot. It's fixed now.
 
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