[java] Spring Boot - Handle to Hibernate SessionFactory

Does anyone know how to get a handle the Hibernate SessionFactory that is created by Spring Boot?

The simplest and least verbose way to autowire your Hibernate SessionFactory is:

This is the solution for Spring Boot 1.x with Hibernate 4:

application.properties:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class=
org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext

Configuration class:

@Bean
public HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory() {
    return new HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean();
}

Then you can autowire the SessionFactory in your services as usual:

@Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

As of Spring Boot 1.5 with Hibernate 5, this is now the preferred way:

application.properties:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class=
org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.SpringSessionContext

Configuration class:

@EnableAutoConfiguration
...
...
@Bean
public HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory(EntityManagerFactory emf) {
    HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean fact = new HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean();
    fact.setEntityManagerFactory(emf);
    return fact;
}

Great work Andreas. I created a bean version so the SessionFactory could be autowired.

import javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;

....

@Autowired
private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;

@Bean
public SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
    if (entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class) == null) {
        throw new NullPointerException("factory is not a hibernate factory");
    }
    return entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class);
}

If it's really required to access SessionFactory through @Autowire, I'd rather configure another EntityManagerFactory and then use it to configure the SessionFactory bean, like following:

@Configuration
public class SessionFactoryConfig {

@Autowired 
DataSource dataSource;

@Autowired
JpaVendorAdapter jpaVendorAdapter;

@Bean
@Primary
public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean emf = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    emf.setDataSource(dataSource);
    emf.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdapter);
    emf.setPackagesToScan("com.hibernateLearning");
    emf.setPersistenceUnitName("default");
    emf.afterPropertiesSet();
    return emf.getObject();
}

@Bean
public SessionFactory setSessionFactory(EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory) {
    return entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class);
} }

Another way similar to the yglodt's

In application.properties:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class=org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext

And in your configuration class:

@Bean
public SessionFactory sessionFactory(HibernateEntityManagerFactory hemf) {
    return hemf.getSessionFactory();
}

Then you can autowire the SessionFactory in your services as usual:

@Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

SessionFactory sessionFactory = entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class);

where entityManagerFactory is an JPA EntityManagerFactory.

It works with Spring Boot 2.1.0 and Hibernate 5

@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;

Then you can create new Session by using entityManager.unwrap(Session.class)

Session session = null;
if (entityManager == null
    || (session = entityManager.unwrap(Session.class)) == null) {

    throw new NullPointerException();
}

example create query:

session.createQuery("FROM Student");

application.properties:

spring.datasource.driver-class-name=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:db11g
spring.datasource.username=admin
spring.datasource.password=admin
spring.jpa.show-sql=true spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create-drop
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect