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Migration Guide 5.2

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Steve Ebersole edited this page Jun 2, 2016 · 1 revision

This guide discusses migration from Hibernate ORM version 5.1 to version 5.2. For migration from earlier versions, see any other pertinent migration guides as well.

Background

Lots of work has been done for 6.0. One of the things 6.0 will need is a unified view of "type systems" including its own type system (Type, EntityPersister, CollectionPersister, etc) and JPA’s type system - which would mean unifying all of this in hibernate-core. Because of this and the other large changes slated for 6.0 we decided to release a 5.2 that showed a clear migration path to the changes in 6.0 but that still supported the older calls and expectations as much as possible.

Move to Java 8 for baseline

Hibernate 5.2 is built using Java 8 JDK and will require Java 8 JRE at runtime (we are investigating whether Java 9 will also work). This has a number of implications:

  • The hibernate-java8 module has been merged into hibernate-core and the Java 8 date/time types are now natively supported.

  • (todo) support for Java 8 Optional

  • (todo) support for other Java 8 features?

hibernate-entitymanager merged into hibernate-core

The hibernate-entitymanager module has also been merged into hibernate-core.

  • org.hibernate.SessionFactory now extends javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory - temporarily it technically extends org.hibernate.jpa.HibernateEntityManagerFactory (which in turn extends javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory) for backwards compatibility. HibernateEntityManagerFactory is deprecated.

  • org.hibernate.Session now extends javax.persistence.EntityManager - temporarily it technically extends org.hibernate.jpa.HibernateEntityManager (which in turn extends javax.persistence.EntityManager) for backwards compatibility. HibernateEntityManager is deprecated.

  • org.hibernate.Query (deprecated in favor of new org.hibernate.query.Query) now extends the JPA contracts javax.persistence.Query and javax.persistence.TypedQuery. ProcedureCall and StoredProcedureQuery as well.

  • org.hibernate.HibernateException now extends javax.persistence.PersistenceExceptions. Hibernate methods that "override" methods from their JPA counterparts now will also throw various JDK defined RuntimeExceptions (such as IllegalArgumentException, IllegalStateException, etc) as required by the JPA contract.

  • Persister/type access is now exposed through org.hibernate.Metamodel, which extends javax.persistence.metamodel.Metamodel. MetamodelImpl now manages all aspects of type system (see below).

  • Cache management has also been consolidated. org.hibernate.Cache now extends javax.persistence.Cache. CacheImpl now manages all aspects of cache regions (see below).

SessionFactory hierarchy cleanup

As part of merging hibernate-entitymanager into hibernate-core, I also wanted to take a moment to clean up some of these very old contracts. In conjunction with the move to Java 8 (default methods) and needing to implement JPA methods now in core I decided to implement more of a composition approach here, thus:

  • SessionFactoryImplementor used to have a number of methods pertaining to managing and accessing entity and collection persisters. Since we need to deal with JPA Metamodel contract anyway, I went ahead and moved all of that code into our new org.hibernate.metamodel.spi.MetamodelImplementor

  • SessionFactory and SessionFactoryImplementor each had a number of methods dealing with cache regions. Many of these methods have been deprecated since 5.0 and those will be removed. However, the functionality has been moved into the org.hibernate.Cache and org.hibernate.engine.spi.CacheImplementor contracts helping implement JPA’s javax.persistence.Cache role.

Session and StatelessSession hierarchy cleanup

This one can effect implementors of certain extension contracts. Specifically those previously accepting a SessionImplementor will likely now accept a SharedSessionContract.

Misc

  • QueryCacheFactory contract changed

  • RegionFactory contract changes

  • todo : merge AvailableSettings together

  • org.hibernate.Transaction now extends JPA’s EntityTransaction and follows its pre- and post- assertions. e.g. begin() now throws an exception if transaction is already active.

  • (todo) following the above one, JPA also says that only PersistenceUnitTransactionType#JTA EntiytManagers are allowed to access EntityTransactions. Need a strategy to handle this

  • Session#getFlushMode and Query#getFlushMode clash in terms of Hibernate (FlushMode) and JPA (FlushModeType) returns. #getFlushMode has been altered to return JPA’s FlushModeType. The Hibernate FlushMode is still available via #getHibernateFlushMode and #setHibernateFlushMode. Same for Session#getFlushMode and EntityManager#getFlushMode.

  • Setting hibernate.listeners.envers.autoRegister has been deprecated in favor of hibernate.envers.autoRegisterListeners.

  • AuditReader#getCurrentRevision has been deprecated in favor of org.hibernate.envers.RevisionListener.

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