Java – how to check whether the user name exists in the database before submitting to create a user with Hibernate?

Hi, I have a simple login service. I use GWT, hibernate & HSQLDB

Now I can create an account, but I need to add a function to check whether the user name is already in the database before submitting to the database

LoginServiceImpl. java

@Override
public void createAccount(Account user) {

    try {
        Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
        session.beginTransaction();
        session.save(user);
        session.getTransaction().commit();
    }catch (HibernateException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }catch (InvocationException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();

    }
}

Account. java

public class Account implements Serializable {
      Long id;
      String name;
      String password;
  public Account() {
      }
      public Account(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
      }
      public String getpassword() {
        return password;
      }
      public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
      }
      public Long getId() {
        return id;
      }
      public String getName() {
        return name;
      }
      public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
      }
      public void setId(Long id) {
            this.id = id;
      }
}

Solution

Query query=  session.createQuery("from Account where name=?");

Query query=  session.createQuery("from Account where name=?");

Account user=(Account)query.setString(0,user.getName()).uniqueResult();
if(user!=null){
   //Do whatever you want to do
}else{
  //Insert user
}