Why is Hibernate not creating database for MySQL?

Question

I have following hibernate.cfg.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>

        <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/userdb</property>
        <property name="connection.username">root</property>
        <property name="connection.password">1234</property>
        <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
        <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</property>

        <property name="show_sql">true</property>

        <property name="format_sql">true</property>
        <property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
        <property name="connection.pool_size">1</property>
        <property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>

        <mapping class="com.beingjavaguys.hbn.User" />

    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

I tryed another dialect(org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect) but I see old result

pom.xml:

...
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.1.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
            <version>4.2.0.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate.common</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-commons-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.1.Final</version>
            <classifier>tests</classifier>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.1.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.1.Final</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
            <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0.GA</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.27</version>
        </dependency>
        </dependencies>
</project>

When invokes following code line:

    return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

I see following stacktrace:

ERROR: HHH000231: Schema export unsuccessful
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown database 'userdb'
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    ...
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SuppliedConnectionProviderConnectionHelper.prepare(SuppliedConnectionProviderConnectionHelper.java:51)
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.DatabaseExporter.<init>(DatabaseExporter.java:52)
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport.execute(SchemaExport.java:368)
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport.create(SchemaExport.java:305)
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport.create(SchemaExport.java:294)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:452)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1737)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1775)
    at com.beingjavaguys.hbn.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:16)
    at com.beingjavaguys.hbn.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:12)
    at com.beingjavaguys.hbn.App.saveUser(App.java:45)
    at com.beingjavaguys.hbn.App.main(App.java:30)

What the reason of this problem?

How to fix it?

P.S.

database schema doesn't exist in MySql!

if I add Database shema explicitly - all works good.

Is where way to create schema from java application?

Answer 1

I usually use the properties file to automatically create a database when i'm using Spring, and below is how its done, hope this works so u'll modify this to suite your needs.....

database.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/userdb?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true
database.user=root
database.password=root
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
hibernate.show_sql=true
hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create

Answer 2

MySQL will create your schema within a database, but will not create your actual database for you. You must have an existing database called 'userdb' in your local MySQL installation (log in and run something like 'create database userdb') before you run the schema export in hibernate.