Is there a simple way to retrieve table metadata (e.g. primary key and foreign keys) from a relational database, via Hibernate?
There are numerous XInformation interfaces in the package org.hibernate.tool.schema.extract.spi (e.g., TableInformation, PrimaryKeyInformation, ForeignKeyInformation), as well as an InformationExtractor interface, but no documented ways of how to instantiate them from a database session.
Using plain vanilla JSBC allows the retrieval of the metadata via
DatabaseMetaData metadata = connection.getMetaData();
Apparently the corresponding mechanism in Hibernate 5 is to register an org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator object in the properties used to create SessionFactory objects to connect to the database, as discussed in this questiοn:
Is there any way of getting the above information as in JDBC, i.e. without modifying the session configuration?
