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Introduction

In this article, we are going to see how we can override the default FlushMode used by Hibernate.

If you bootstrap Hibernate natively, and not as a JPA provider, de default FlushMode.AUTO is used which, as explained in this article, does not trigger a Persistence Context flush prior to executing a native SQL query.

Hibernate default FlushMode AUTO

Assuming we have no Post entity in our database:

assertEquals( 0, ((Number) entityManager .createQuery( "select count(p) " + "from Post p") .getSingleResult() ).intValue() );

If we persist a Post entity:

entityManager .persist( new Post() .setTitle( "High-Performance Java Persistence" ) );

and we bootstrap Hibernate natively using the SessionFactoryBuilder , then the default FlushMode.AUTO will not trigger a Persistence Context flush when a native SQL query is executed:

assertEquals( 0, ((Number) entityManager .createNativeQuery( "select count(*) " + "from post") .getSingleResult() ).intValue() );

This behavior only happens if Hibernate is bootstrap using the SessionFactory class. We can see that flush is delayed until the Hibernate transaction is about to commit:

CALL NEXT VALUE FOR hibernate_sequence SELECT COUNT(*) FROM post -- o.h.e.t.i.TransactionImpl - committing INSERT INTO post ( title, id ) VALUES ( 'High-Performance Java Persistence', 1 )

When using JPA, the Persistence Context is flushed on every query execution, be it JPQL, Criteria API or a native SQL query.

How to manually override the default Hibernate Session FlushMode

You can override the default FlushMode either at the Query or Session level.

If you are only interested in changing the FlushMode only for the duration of the currently executing query, then you can do that as illustrated in the following example:

assertEquals( 1, ((Number) entityManager .createNativeQuery( "select count(*) " + "from post" ) .unwrap(org.hibernate.query.Query.class) .setHibernateFlushMode(FlushMode.ALWAYS) .getSingleResult() ).intValue() );

The FlushMode.ALWAYS mode instructs Hibernate to behave just like the JPA FlushModeType.AUTO mode, therefore, triggering a Persistence Context flush prior to any query, be it JPQL, Criteria API or a native SQL query.

If you want to override the FlushMode for every query executed by the current Hibernate Session , then you can change the FlushMode as follows:

entityManager .unwrap(Session.class) .setHibernateFlushMode(FlushMode.ALWAYS);

However, this would require you to manually set the FlushMode.ALWAYS for every Session , which is not very convenient for the application developer.

How to automatically override the default Hibernate Session FlushMode

You can define a specific FlushMode at the Hibernate configuration level using the org.hibernate.flushMode configuration property:

<property name="org.hibernate.flushMode" value="ALWAYS" />

This way, every Session will use the ALWAYS flush strategy, so we don’t need to manually override the default AUTO flush mode at the Query or Session level.

Conclusion

Setting the FlushMode.ALWAYS strategy is desirable when bootstrapping Hibernate natively either via the Spring SessionFactriyBuilder or the Hibernate BootstrapServiceRegistryBuilder .

This way, you provide read-your-writes consistency guarantee, and native SQL queries will include any pending modifications that were scheduled to be executed at flush time.

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