Example of creating a Hibernate configuration class for the Grails platform to allow developer control which tables (via domain objects) are given the GORM treatment during startup of a Grails application. I created it to be simple object-oriented method where I can mix domain objects that were either (a) custom to the application and needed sch…

BannerHibernateConfiguration.groovy

package edu.fhda.grails.hibernate

import groovy.util.logging.Log4j
import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplication
import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.GrailsAnnotationConfiguration
import org.hibernate.HibernateException
import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect
import org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.DatabaseMetadata

/**
 * Customized Hibernate configurator that extends the default GrailsAnnotationConfiguration to provide
 * a method for specifying a configurable list of tables to ignore during Grails startup. Very helpful
 * if you want to have domain objects that should be GORM managed alongside domain objects that
 * map to existing Banner database tables. This will prevent Grails from trying to create, update, or drop
 * Banner baseline schema objects.
 */
@Log4j
class BannerHibernateConfiguration extends GrailsAnnotationConfiguration {

    private GrailsApplication grailsApplication

    @Override
    String[] generateDropSchemaScript(Dialect dialect) throws HibernateException {
        return checkAndRemoveIgnoredTables(super.generateDropSchemaScript(dialect));
    }

    @Override
    String[] generateSchemaCreationScript(Dialect dialect) throws HibernateException {
        return checkAndRemoveIgnoredTables(super.generateSchemaCreationScript(dialect));
    }

    @Override
    String[] generateSchemaUpdateScript(Dialect dialect, DatabaseMetadata databaseMetadata) throws HibernateException {
        return checkAndRemoveIgnoredTables(super.generateSchemaUpdateScript(dialect, databaseMetadata));
    }

    private String[] checkAndRemoveIgnoredTables(String[] sqlStatements) {
        // Create a collection of SQL statements for non-ignored tables
        ArrayList<String> validSqlStatements = new ArrayList<>()

        // Get the list of table names to ignored from the application config
        def ignoredTables = grailsApplication.config.edu.fhda.grails.hibernate.banner.ignoreTables as List<String>
        if(ignoredTables?.size() > 0) {
            log.debug "Using ignored tables configuration: ${ignoredTables}"

            // Iterate each SQL DML statement generated by GORM
            sqlStatements?.each { String sqlStatement ->
                boolean safeToAdd = true

                // Check to see if the statement references any ignored tables
                ignoredTables?.each { String tableName ->
                    if(sqlStatement.toLowerCase().contains("table ${tableName.toLowerCase()}")) {
                        /* NOTE: Log reference using this keyword prevents NullPointerExceptions */
                        this.log.debug "Bypassing ${tableName} for Grails domain mapping"
                        safeToAdd = false
                    }
                }

                // Did the statement pass the test?
                if(safeToAdd) {
                    validSqlStatements.add(sqlStatement)
                }
            }

            // Return a String array of validated statements
            return validSqlStatements.toArray() as String[]
        }
        return sqlStatements
    }

    @Override
    void setGrailsApplication(GrailsApplication application) {
        // Run superclass method
        super.setGrailsApplication(application)

        // Inject Grails application reference
        this.grailsApplication = application
    }

}

Config.groovy

// Hibernate Configuration for Banner (one or more tables Grails should never try to modify)
edu.fhda.grails.hibernate.banner.ignoreTables = [
    "STVTERM"
]

DataSource.groovy

// Example data source configuration
dataSource {
    pooled = true
    driverClassName = "oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
    configClass = edu.fhda.grails.hibernate.BannerHibernateConfiguration
}

In the latest GORM Version 6.1 GrailsAnnotationConfiguration is not available anymore. See http://gorm.grails.org/latest/hibernate/api/org/grails/orm/hibernate/cfg/package-summary.html

Which class from the summary replaces GrailsAnnotationConfiguration an canbe use in 6.1 to implement the same behaviour?