Generate DDL with spring boot using a custom delimiter

You might want to try setting the following Hibernate property:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.hbm2ddl.delimiter=;

#in addition to the other standard JPA properties you refered to, namely:
spring.jpa.properties.javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.action=create
spring.jpa.properties.javax.persistence.schema-generation.scripts.create-target=create.sql

I found this to do the job in a Spring Boot 2.1.2.RELEASE + matching Hibernate version (5.3.7.Final) project where I needed the same feature.

It might very well work on your not-so-different Hibernate environment.

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Slightly off-topic, but one issue I have remains: Hibernate appends to create.sql. I whish I found a way to have it replace the file contents.

Finally after a lot of investigation I think I found an easy solution that uses public APIs. The solution I found uses hibernate 5.2 (more concrete 5.2.6.Final). But I think it can also be adapted to 5.0

Here is my spring java configuration

@Configuration
@AutoConfigureAfter({ HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class })
public class HibernateJavaConfig {

    @ConditionalOnMissingBean({ Metadata.class })
    @Bean
    public Metadata getMetadata(StandardServiceRegistry standardServiceRegistry,
            PersistenceUnitInfo persistenceUnitInfo) {
        MetadataSources metadataSources = new MetadataSources(standardServiceRegistry);

        List<String> managedClassNames = persistenceUnitInfo.getManagedClassNames();
        for (String managedClassName : managedClassNames) {
            metadataSources.addAnnotatedClassName(managedClassName);
        }

        Metadata metadata = metadataSources.buildMetadata();
        return metadata;
    }

    @ConditionalOnMissingBean({ StandardServiceRegistry.class })
    @Bean
    public StandardServiceRegistry getStandardServiceRegistry(JpaProperties jpaProperties) {
        StandardServiceRegistryBuilder ssrb = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder();

        Map<String, String> properties = jpaProperties.getProperties();
        ssrb.applySettings(properties);

        StandardServiceRegistry ssr = ssrb.build();
        return ssr;
    }

    @ConditionalOnMissingBean({ PersistenceUnitInfo.class })
    @Bean
    public PersistenceUnitInfo getPersistenceUnitInfo(EntityScanPackages entityScanPackages) {
        List<String> packagesToScan = entityScanPackages.getPackageNames();

        DefaultPersistenceUnitManager persistenceUnitManager = new DefaultPersistenceUnitManager();

        String[] packagesToScanArr = (String[]) packagesToScan.toArray(new String[packagesToScan.size()]);
        persistenceUnitManager.setPackagesToScan(packagesToScanArr);
        persistenceUnitManager.afterPropertiesSet();

        PersistenceUnitInfo persistenceUnitInfo = persistenceUnitManager.obtainDefaultPersistenceUnitInfo();
        return persistenceUnitInfo;
    }

}

The java configuration creates a Metadata bean. This bean can be used in hibernate 5.2 to execute a schema generation. E.g.

@Component
public class GenerateDDLApplicationRunner implements ApplicationRunner {

    private Metadata metadata;

    public GenerateDDLApplicationRunner(Metadata metadata) {
        this.metadata = metadata;
    }

    public void run(ApplicationArguments args) throws Exception {
        File dropAndCreateDdlFile = new File("drop-and-create.ddl");
        deleteFileIfExists(dropAndCreateDdlFile);

        SchemaExport schemaExport = new SchemaExport();
        schemaExport.setDelimiter(";");
        schemaExport.setFormat(false);
        schemaExport.setOutputFile(dropAndCreateDdlFile.getAbsolutePath());

        schemaExport.execute(EnumSet.of(TargetType.SCRIPT), Action.BOTH, metadata);
    }

    private void deleteFileIfExists(File dropAndCreateDdlFile) {
        if (dropAndCreateDdlFile.exists()) {
            if (!dropAndCreateDdlFile.isFile()) {
                String msg = MessageFormat.format("File is not a normal file {0}", dropAndCreateDdlFile);
                throw new IllegalStateException(msg);
            }

            if (!dropAndCreateDdlFile.delete()) {
                String msg = MessageFormat.format("Unable to delete file {0}", dropAndCreateDdlFile);
                throw new IllegalStateException(msg);
            }
        }
    }

}

The hibernate dialect is configured using the spring boot application.properties. In my case:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL57InnoDBDialect