在Java中獲取數據庫元數據的最簡單方法是什麼？

Question

我對java.sql.DatabaseMetaData界面很熟悉，但是我覺得它的使用非常笨重。例如，爲了找出表名，你必須調用getTables並通過返回的ResultSet循環，使用衆所周知的文字作爲列名。

是否有更簡單的方法來獲取數據庫元數據？

Answer 1

它使用DdlUtils容易實現：

import javax.sql.DataSource; 
import org.apache.ddlutils.Platform; 
import org.apache.ddlutils.PlatformFactory; 
import org.apache.ddlutils.model.Database; 
import org.apache.ddlutils.platform.hsqldb.HsqlDbPlatform; 

public void readMetaData(final DataSource dataSource) { 
    final Platform platform = PlatformFactory.createNewPlatformInstance(dataSource); 
    final Database database = platform.readModelFromDatabase("someName"); 
    // Inspect the database as required; has objects like Table/Column/etc. 
} 

Answer 2

看看SchemaCrawler（自由和開放源碼），這是爲此目的設計的另一個API。一些示例代碼SchemaCrawler：

// Create the options 
final SchemaCrawlerOptions options = new SchemaCrawlerOptions(); 
// Set what details are required in the schema - this affects the 
// time taken to crawl the schema 
options.setSchemaInfoLevel(SchemaInfoLevel.standard()); 
options.setShowStoredProcedures(false); 
// Sorting options 
options.setAlphabeticalSortForTableColumns(true); 

// Get the schema definition 
// (the database connection is managed outside of this code snippet) 
final Database database = SchemaCrawlerUtility.getDatabase(connection, options); 

for (final Catalog catalog: database.getCatalogs()) 
{ 
    for (final Schema schema: catalog.getSchemas()) 
    { 
    System.out.println(schema); 
    for (final Table table: schema.getTables()) 
    { 
     System.out.print("o--> " + table); 
     if (table instanceof View) 
     { 
     System.out.println(" (VIEW)"); 
     } 
     else 
     { 
     System.out.println(); 
     } 

     for (final Column column: table.getColumns()) 
     { 
     System.out.println("  o--> " + column + " (" + column.getType() 
          + ")"); 
     } 
    } 
    } 
} 

http://schemacrawler.sourceforge.net/