Is it possible to make `#SQLDelete` take the `hibernate.default_schema` parameter into account? - sql

Question

In a webapp, I use Hibernate's #SQLDelete annotation in order to "soft-delete" entities (i.e. set a status column to a value that denotes their "deleted" status instead of actually deleting them from the table).
The entity code looks like this :
#Entity
#SQLDelete(sql="update pizza set status = 2 where id = ?")
public class Pizza { ... }
Now, my problem is that the web application doesn't use the owner of the schema to which the tables belong to connect to the DB. E.g. the schema (in Oracle) is called pizza, and the db user the webapp uses to connect is pizza_webapp. This is for security reasons. The pizza_webapp user only has select/update/delete rights, it can't modify the structure of the DB itself. I don't have any choice here, it is a policy that I can't change.
I specify the name of the schema where the tables actually are with the hibernate-default_schema parameter in hibernate config :
<property name="hibernate.default_schema">pizza</property>
This works fine for everything that goes through mapped entities, Hibernate knows how to add the schema name in front of the table name in the SQL it generates. But not for raw SQL, and the #SQLDelete contains raw SQL. This is executed 'as is' and results in a "table or view not found error".
So far we worked around the issue by adding synonyms to the pizza_webapp schema, pointing to the pizza schema. It works, but it is not fun to maintain across multiple DBs when entities are added.
So, is it possible to make #SQLDelete take the hibernate.default_schema parameter into account ?
(NB: Obviously I don't want to hard-code the schema name in the SQL either...)

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible:
#SQLDelete(sql="update {h-schema}pizza set status = 2 where id = ?")

Answer 2

I could not find any Hibernate solution to this problem. However I found a work-around based on an Oracle feature. I do this in to my session before using it :
//set the default schema at DB session level for raw SQL queries (see #SQLDelete)
HibernateUtil.currentSession().doWork(new Work() {
#Override
public void execute(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
connection.createStatement().execute("ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA="+HibernateUtil.getDefaultSchema());
}
});
I works fine, but unfortunately only on Oracle (which is fine for us for now at least). Maybe there are different ways to achieve the same thing on other RDBMS as well ?
Edit: the the getDefaultSchema() method in my HibernateUtil class does this to get the default schema from Hibernate's config :
defaultSchema = config.getProperty("hibernate.default_schema");
where config is my org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration object.