Spring Boot: Hibernate and Flyway boot order

I had the same issue.

I wanted my schema to be created by hibernate because of it’s database independence. I already went through the trouble of figuring out a nice schema for my application in my jpa classes, I don’t like repeating myself.

But I want some data initialization to be done in a versioned manner which flyway is good at.

Spring boot runs flyway migrations before hibernate. To change it I overrode the spring boot initializer to do nothing. Then I created a second initializer that runs after hibernate is done. All you need to do is add this configuration class:

import org.flywaydb.core.Flyway;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.flyway.FlywayMigrationInitializer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.DependsOn;

@Configuration
public class MigrationConfiguration {


    /**
     * Override default flyway initializer to do nothing
     */
    @Bean
    FlywayMigrationInitializer flywayInitializer(Flyway flyway) {
        return new FlywayMigrationInitializer(flyway, (f) ->{} );
    }


    /**
     * Create a second flyway initializer to run after jpa has created the schema
     */
    @Bean
    @DependsOn("entityManagerFactory")
    FlywayMigrationInitializer delayedFlywayInitializer(Flyway flyway) {
        return new FlywayMigrationInitializer(flyway, null);
    }


}

That code needs java 8, If you have java 7 or earlier, replace (f)->{} with an inner class that implements FlywayMigrationStrategy

Of course you can do this in xml just as easily.

Make sure to add this to your application.properties:

flyway.baselineOnMigrate = true