I want to execute multiple update statements in the same query in hibernate Hql. like below:
hql = " update Table1 set prob1=null where id=:id1; "
+ " delete from Table2 where id =:id2 ";
...
query.executeUpdate();
in the same executeUpdate call I want to update records in Table1 and delete records from Table2.
Is that possible?
In short, what you are looking is something like batching in JDBC. Thich is not provided by Hibernate for Bulk Update query, and I doubt if it will ever be considered for Hibernate.
From my past experience, Batching feature for HQL is rarely useful in real life. It may sound strange that something being useful in SQL+JDBC but not in HQL. I will try to explain.
Usually when we work with Hibernate (or other similar ORM), we work against entities. Hibernate will be responsible to synchronize our entities' state with DB, which is most of the cases that JDBC batching can help in improving performance. However, in Hibernate we do not change individual entity's state by Bulk Update query.
Just give an example, in pseudo-code:
In JDBC, you may do something like (I am trying to mimic what you show in your example):
List<Order> orders = findOrderByUserId(userName);
for (Order order: orders) {
if (order outstanding quantity is 0) {
dbConn.addBatch("update ORDER set STATE='C' where ID=:id", order.id);
} else if (order is after expriation time) {
dbConn.addBatch("delete ORDER where ID=:id", order.id);
}
}
dbConn.executeBatch();
Naive translation from JDBC logic to Hibernate may give you something like this:
List<Order> orders = findOrderByUserId(userName);
for (Order order: orders) {
if (order outstanding quantity is 0) {
q = session.createQuery("update Order set state='C' where id=:id");
q.setParameter("id", order.id);
q.executeUpdate();
} else if (order is after expriation time) {
q = session.createQuery("delete Order where id=:id");
q.setParameter("id", order.id);
q.executeUpdate();
}
}
I suspect you think you need the batching feature because you are doing something similar (based on your example, which you use bulk update for individual record). However it is NOT how thing should be done in Hibernate/JPA
(Actually it is better to wrap the persistence layer access through a repository, here I am just simplifying the picture)
List<Order> orders = findOrderByUserId(userName);
for (Order order: orders) {
if (order.anyOutstanding()) {
order.complete(); // which internally update the state
} else if (order.expired) {
session.delete(order);
}
}
session.flush(); // or you may simply leave it to flush automatically before txn commit
By doing so, Hibernate is intelligent enough to detect changed/deleted/inserted entities, and make use of JDBC batch to do the DB CUD operations at flush(). More important, this is the whole purpose for ORM: we want to provide behavioral-rich entities to work with, for which internal state change of entities can be "transparently" reflected in persistent storage.
HQL Bulk Update aims for other usage, which is something like one bulk update to DB to affect a lot of records, e.g.:
q = session.createQuery("update Order set state='C' "
+ " where user.id=:user_id "
+ " and outstandingQty = 0 and state != 'C' ");
q.setParameter("user_id", userId);
q.executeUpdate();
There is seldom need for executing a lot of queries in such kind of usage scenario, therefore, overhead of DB round-trip is insignificant, and hence, benefit for and batch processing support for bulk update query is seldom significant.
I cannot omit that there are cases that you really need to issue a lot of update queries which is not appropriate to be done by meaningful entity behavior. In such case, you may want to reconsider if Hibernate is the right tool to be used. You may consider using pure JDBC in such use case so that you have control on how queries are issued.