Use the Hibernate console to write and run HQL queries, analyze the query results, and also to perform other, associated tasks.
- Opening the Hibernate console
- Viewing and modifying the console settings
- Composing HQL queries
- Navigating to the declaration of a class or field
- Running a query
- Running parameterized queries
- Running auto-memorized queries
- Terminating query execution
- Generating SQL statements and DDL SQL scripts
- Hiding or showing the Result pane toolbar
- Pinning the Result tab
- Navigating through subsets of rows
- Making all rows visible simultaneously
- Navigating to a specified row
- Sorting data
- Reordering columns
- Hiding and showing columns
- Restoring the initial table view
- Using the Structure view to sort data, and hide and show columns
- Copying a table to the clipboard or saving table in a file
- Changing table output format
- Saving a LOB in a file
- Updating the table view
- Viewing the query
- Closing a console
See also, Hibernate Console Tool Window.
- Open the Persistence tool window ( or Persistence in the lower part of the left-hand tool window bar).
- Expand the Hibernate facet node.
- Select the session factory for which you want to open the console or any node within that session factory.
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Do one of the following:
-
Click
on the title bar. - Select Console from the context menu.
- Press Jpa.OpenConsole.
-
Click
As a result, the Hibernate Console tool window opens and the input pane is shown. This is where you compose your HQL queries.
When you
run your first query
(
),
the output pane opens above the input pane.
Basically, this is the log of operations performed in the console.
If your query retrieves data (e.g. from, select),
also the Result pane opens showing the retrieved data in table format.
Additionally, you can open the Parameters pane (
)
to manage parameters in
your queries.
Before actually starting to use a console, you may want to take a look at the console settings and adjust them to your needs.
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To access these settings, click
on the toolbar
of the Hibernate Console tool window.
As a result, the Database page of the Settings dialog opens. On this page, you can, for example, specify how:
- Query results are to be shown (the Data View section).
- Retrieved table data are converted into CSV, TSV and other formats (the Data Extractors section).
Note that the settings in the Console section are irrelevant to the Hibernate console. For more information, see Database.
When composing your queries in the input pane, use auto-completion and highlighting of HQL keywords, and object and property names.
See also, Navigating to the declaration of a class or field.
When composing a query, it's sometimes useful to take a look at the declaration of a class or field for an object or property referenced in the input pane. To navigate to the corresponding declaration, do one of the following:
- Place the cursor within the name of the object or property of interest. Then use Ctrl+B, Ctrl+Button1 Click or Button2 Click. (Alternatively, you can use from the main menu.)
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Press and hold the Ctrl key, and point to the name of interest.
When the text turns into a hyperlink, click the hyperlink.
As a result, the necessary source file opens in the editor and the cursor is placed within the declaration of the corresponding class or the getter method for the corresponding field.
To run the current query, do one of the following:
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Click on the toolbar.
- Press Ctrl+Enter.
Your queries can contain parameters, however, by the time you run such queries the values of the parameters must be specified. There are the following ways of specifying the parameter values:
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Click on the toolbar or press
Ctrl+Enter to run the query.
In the dialog that opens, specify the parameter values and click OK.
( To start editing a value, switch to the corresponding table cell and start typing. To indicate that you have finished editing a value, press Enter or switch to a different cell. To quit the editing mode and restore an initial value, press Escape. )
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Alternatively, you can open the Parameters pane
( on the toolbar) and specify the corresponding values there.
(The values are edited in the same way as in the corresponding dialog.)
Then run the query
( on the toolbar or
Ctrl+Enter).
As you run HQL queries in the console, IntelliJ IDEA memorizes them. So, at a later time, you can view the queries you have already run and, if necessary, run them again.
To open the dialog where the auto-memorized queries are shown (the History dialog), do one of the following:
-
Click
on the toolbar. - Press Ctrl+Alt+E.
There are two panes in the History dialog. The left-hand pane shows the list of the queries that you have run. For "long" queries, only their beginnings are shown. When you select a query in this pane, the overall query is shown in the pane to the right.
You can filter the information: just start typing. As a result, only the queries that contain the typed text will be shown.
You can copy the queries from the History dialog into the input pane of the console. To copy a query, do one of the following:
- Double-click the query to be copied.
- Select the query of interest and press Enter.
- Select the query and click OK.
(Once the query is in the input pane, you can run it straight away.)
You can delete unnecessary memorized queries. To delete a query, select the query in the History dialog and press Delete.
To terminate execution of the current query, do one of the following:
-
Click
on the toolbar.
- Press Ctrl+F2.
You can generate SQL statements for your HQL queries and DDL SQL scripts for your session factory:
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To generate an SQL equivalent of the current query, do one of the following:
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Click
on the toolbar. - Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
-
Click
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To generate DDL SQL statements
(
CREATE TABLE,ALTER TABLEandDROP TABLE) for all the objects (classes) associated with the corresponding session factory, do one of the following:-
Click
on the toolbar. - Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Enter.
-
Click
The generated SQL statements are shown in the output pane.
To hide or show the toolbar of the Result pane:
-
Click
on the title bar of the
Hibernate Console
tool window and
click Show Toolbar.
If one and the same tab is used to show your query results, and you get the result that you want to keep, you can pin the tab to the tool window. To do that:
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Right-click the tab and select Pin Tab.
See also, Show query results in new tab.
If only a subset of the rows that satisfy the query is currently shown, to switch between the subsets, use:
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First Page -
Previous Page
(Ctrl+Alt+Up) -
Next Page
(Ctrl+Alt+Down) -
Last Page
See also, Making all rows visible simultaneously.
If you want all the rows that satisfy the query to be shown simultaneously:
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Click on the toolbar of
the Hibernate Console tool window.
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On the Database page that opens,
specify
0in the Result set page size field, and click OK. -
Click
or press Ctrl+F5
to refresh the table view.
See also, Updating the table view and Result set page size.
To switch to a row with a specified number:
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Do one of the following:
- Press Ctrl+G.
- Right-click the table and select from the context menu.
- Select from the main menu.
- In the dialog that opens, specify the row number and click OK.
You can sort table data by any of the columns by clicking the cells in the header row.
Each cell in this row has a sorting marker in the right-hand part and, initially,
a cell may look something like this: 
.
The sorting marker in this case indicates that the data is not sorted by this column.
If you click the cell once, the data is sorted by the corresponding column in the ascending order.
This is indicated by the sorting marker appearance: 
.
The number to the right of the marker (1 on the picture) is the sorting level.
(You can sort by more than one column. In such cases, different columns will have different sorting levels.)
When you click the cell for the second time, the data is sorted in the descending order.
Here is how the sorting marker indicates this order: 
.
Finally, when you click the cell for the third time, the initial state is resorted.
That is, sorting by the corresponding column is canceled: .
See also, Restoring the initial table view and Using the Structure view to sort data, and hide and show columns.
To reorder columns, use drag-and-drop for the corresponding cells in the header row.
See also, Restoring the initial table view.
To hide a column, right-click the corresponding header cell and select Hide column.
To show a hidden column:
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Do one of the following:
- Right-click any of the cells in the header row and select Column List.
- Press Ctrl+F12.
In the list that appears, the names of hidden columns are shown struck through.
- Select (highlight) the column name of interest and press Space.
- Press Enter or Escape to close the list.
See also, Restoring the initial table view and Using the Structure view to sort data, and hide and show columns.
Click 
on the toolbar
to restore the initial table view after reordering or hiding the columns, or sorting the data.
As a result, the data, generally, becomes unsorted, the columns appear in the order they are defined
in the corresponding query,
and all the columns are shown.
When working with the Result pane, the table structure view is available as the corresponding popup.
The structure view shows the list of all the columns and lets you sort the data as well as hide and show the columns.
To open the structure popup, do one of the following:
- Right-click a cell in the table header row and select Column List.
- Press Ctrl+F12.
In the popup, select the column of interest and do one of the following:
- To sort the data by this column in the ascending order, press Shift+Alt+Up.
- To sort the data in the descending order, press Shift+Alt+Down.
- To cancel sorting by this column, press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Backspace.
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To hide the column (or show a hidden column),
press Space.
(The names of hidden columns are shown struck through.)
The shortcuts for sorting table data (Shift+Alt+Up, Shift+Alt+Down and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Backspace) can be used in the Result pane without opening the structure view.
See also, Sorting data, Hiding and showing columns and Restoring the initial table view.
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Do one of the following:
-
Click
on the toolbar and select Copy All To Clipboard or
Save All To File. - Right-click the table and select Copy All To Clipboard or Save All To File from the context menu.
-
Click
- If you are saving the table in a file, specify the file name and location.
If only a subset of rows is currently shown, all the rows that satisfy the corresponding query are copied to the clipboard or saved in a file anyway.
See also, Changing table output format.
Several output formats are available for copying tables to the clipboard or saving them in files. (The output formats, in IntelliJ IDEA are called data extractors.)
When using the Copy All To Clipboard or Save All To File command, or copying a range of cells to the clipboard, the output format (the extractor) which is currently active is used.
To make a different extractor active or to create a new extractor:
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Do one of the following:
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Click
on the toolbar. - Right-click the table and point to Data Extractor: <extractor_name> in the context menu.
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Click
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Do one of the following:
- To make a different extractor active, click the name of the desired extractor.
- To create a new extractor, or to view or modify the settings for an existing extractor, click Configure Extractors. As a result, the CSV Formats Dialog will open.
If a cell contains a
binary large object
(a.k.a. BLOB or LOB),
you can save such a LOB in a file.
- Right-click the cell that contains the LOB of interest and select Save LOB To File.
- In the dialog that opens, specify the name and location of the destination file and click OK.
To refresh the table view, do one of the following:
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Click on the toolbar.
- Right-click the table and select Reload Page from the context menu.
- Press Ctrl+F5.
Use this function to:
- Synchronize the data shown with the actual contents of the database.
- Apply the Result set page size setting after its change.
To see the query that was used to generate the table:
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Click View Query on the toolbar.
If necessary, you can select the query text and copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert).
To close the pane where the query is shown, press Escape.
To close a console, do one of the following:
-
Click
on the toolbar.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+F4.