I want to generate DB structure from my Java classes
jpa.generate-ddl: true
jpa.ddl-auto: true
Also, I need to run SQL script before application will up because I have @PostConstruct methods where I use these data.
Can you show an example how to do it in Spring Boot?
A simple spring boot app with the required functionality can be found at. https://github.com/salilotr89/Spring-boot-postgres-dbinit
Spring JDBC has a DataSource initializer feature. Spring Boot enables it by default and loads SQL from the standard locations schema.sql and data.sql (in the root of the classpath).
In addition Spring Boot will load the schema-${platform}.sql and data-${platform}.sql files (if present), where platform is the value of spring.datasource.platform, e.g. you might choose to set it to the vendor name of the database (hsqldb, h2, oracle, mysql, postgresql etc.).
Spring Boot enables the fail-fast feature of the Spring JDBC initializer by default, so if the scripts cause exceptions the application will fail to start. The script locations can be changed by setting spring.datasource.schema and spring.datasource.data, and neither location will be processed if spring.datasource.initialize=false.
To disable the fail-fast you can set spring.datasource.continue-on-error=true. This can be useful once an application has matured and been deployed a few times, since the scripts can act as ‘poor man’s migrations’ — inserts that fail mean that the data is already there, so there would be no need to prevent the application from running, for instance.
If you want to use the schema.sql initialization in a JPA app (with Hibernate) then ddl-auto=create-drop will lead to errors if Hibernate tries to create the same tables. To avoid those errors set ddl-auto explicitly to "" (preferable) or "none". Whether or not you use ddl-auto=create-drop you can always use data.sql to initialize new data.
http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-database-initialization.html
For Reference: Spring Boot - Loading Initial Data
All you need to do is place a file named data.sql in the resources folder where application.properties file reside.
Any query within this file will be executed before the start of the application and after the creation of your db.
To read more please check this link http://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-data-sql-and-schema-sql
