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= Spring Data JDBC
= Spring Data JDBC
The primary goal of the http://projects.spring.io/spring-data[Spring Data] project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use data access technologies. *Spring Data JDBC* offers the popular Repository abstraction based on JDBC.
The primary goal of the http://projects.spring.io/spring-data[Spring Data] project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use data access technologies. *Spring Data JDBC* offers the popular Repository abstraction based on JDBC.
== This is NOT an ORM
It aims at being conceptually easy.
In order to achieve this it does NOT offer caching, lazy loading, write behind or many other features of JPA.
Spring Data JDBC does not try to be an ORM. It is not a competitor to JPA.
This makes Spring Data JDBC a simple, limited, opinionated ORM.
Instead it is more of a construction kit for your personal ORM that you can define the way you like or need it.
This means that it does rather little out of the box.
But it offers plenty of places where you can put your own logic, or integrate it with the technology of your choice for generating SQL statements.
== The Aggregate Root
Spring Data repositories are inspired by the repository as described in the book Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans.
One consequence of this is that you should have a repository per Aggregate Root.
Aggregate Root is another concept from the same book and describes an entity which controls the lifecycle of other entities which together are an Aggregate.
An Aggregate is a subset of your model which is consistent between method calls to your Aggregate Root.
Spring Data JDBC tries its best to encourage modelling your domain along these ideas.
== Maven Coordinates
[source,xml]
----
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
----
== Features
== Features
=== CRUD operations
* Implementation of CRUD methods for Aggregates.
* `@Query` annotation
In order to use Spring Data JDBC you need the following:
* Support for transparent auditing (created, last changed)
* Events for persistence events
1. An entity with an attribute marked as _id_ using the Spring Data https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/commons/docs/current/api/org/springframework/data/annotation/Id.html[`@Id`] annotation.
* Possibility to integrate custom repository code
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* JavaConfig based repository configuration by introducing `EnableJdbcRepository`
[source,java]
* Integration with MyBatis
----
public class Person {
@Id
Integer id;
}
----
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1. A repository
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[source,java]
----
public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, Integer> {}
----
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1. Add `@EnableJdbcRepositories` to your application context configuration.
1. Make sure your application context contains a bean of type `DataSource`.
Now you can get an instance of the repository interface injected into your beans and use it:
[source,java]
----
@Autowired
private PersonRepository repository;
public void someMethod() {
Person person = repository.save(new Person());
}
----
==== Supported types in your entity
Properties of the following types are currently supported:
* all primitive types and their boxed types (`int`, `float`, `Integer`, `Float` ...)
* references to other entities, which will be considered a one-to-one relationship.
The table of the referenced entity is expected to have an additional column named like the table of the referencing entity.
This name can be changed by implementing `NamingStrategy.getReverseColumnName(JdbcPersistentProperty property)` according to your preferences.
* `Set<some entity>` will be considered a one-to-many relationship.
The table of the referenced entity is expected to have an additional column named like the table of the referencing entity.
This name can be changed by implementing `NamingStrategy.getReverseColumnName(JdbcPersistentProperty property)` according to your preferences.
* `Map<simple type, some entity>` will be considered a qualified one-to-many relationship.
The table of the referenced entity is expected to have two additional columns: One named like the table of the referencing entity for the foreign key and one with the same name and an additional `_key` suffix for the map key.
This name can be changed by implementing `NamingStrategy.getReverseColumnName(JdbcPersistentProperty property)` and `NamingStrategy.getKeyColumn(JdbcPersistentProperty property)` according to your preferences.
* `List<some entity>` will be mapped like a `Map<Integer, some entity>`.
The handling of referenced entities is very limited.
Part of this is because this project is still before its first release.
But another reason is the idea of <<The Aggregate Root,Aggregate Roots>> as described above.
If you reference another entity that entity is by definition part of your Aggregate.
So if you remove the reference it will get deleted.
This also means references will be 1-1 or 1-n, but not n-1 or n-m.
If you are having n-1 or n-m references you are probably dealing with two separate Aggregates.
References between those should be encoded as simple ids, which should map just fine with Spring Data JDBC.
Also the mapping we offer is very limited for a third reason which already was mentioned at the very beginning of the document: this is not an ORM.
We will offer ways to plug in your own SQL in various ways.
But the default mapping itself will stay limited.
If you want highly customizable mappings which support almost everything one can imagine you will probably be much happier with (Spring Data) JPA,
which is a very powerful and mature technology.
=== Query annotation
You can annotate a query method with `@Query` to specify a SQL statement to be used for that method.
You can bind method arguments using named parameters in the SQL statement like in the following example:
[source,java]
----
@Query("SELECT * FROM DUMMYENTITY WHERE name < :upper and name > :lower")
If you compile your sources with the `-parameters` compiler flag you can omit the `@Param` annotations.
==== Custom RowMapper
You can configure the `RowMapper` to use, using either the `@Query(rowMapperClass = ....)` or you can register a `RowMapperMap` bean and register `RowMapper` per method return type.
[source,java]
----
@Bean
RowMapperMap rowMappers() {
return new ConfigurableRowMapperMap() //
.register(Person.class, new PersonRowMapper()) //
.register(Address.class, new AddressRowMapper());
}
----
When determining the `RowMapper` to use for a method the following steps are followed based on the return type of the method:
1. If the type is a simple type, no `RowMapper` is used.
Instead the query is expected to return a single row with a single column and a conversion to the return type is applied to that value.
2. The entity classes in the `RowMapperMap` are iterated until one is found that is a superclass or interface of the return type in question.
The `RowMapper` registered for that class is used.
Iterating happens in the order of registration, so make sure to register more general types after specific ones.
If applicable, wrapper types like collections or `Optional` are unwrapped.
Thus, a return type of `Optional<Person>` will use the type `Person` in the steps above.
==== Modifying query
You can mark as a modifying query using the `@Modifying` on query method.
[source,java]
----
@Modifying
@Query("UPDATE DUMMYENTITY SET name = :name WHERE id = :id")
boolean updateName(@Param("id") Long id, @Param("name") String name);
----
The return types that can be specified are `void`, `int`(updated record count) and `boolean`(whether record was updated).
=== Id generation
Spring Data JDBC uses the id to identify entities, but also to determine if an entity is new or already existing in the database.
If the id is `null` or of a primitive type having value `0` or `0.0`, the entity is considered new.
If your database has some autoincrement-column for the id-column, the generated value will get set in the entity after inserting it into the database.
There are few ways to tweak this behavior.
If you don't like the logic to distinguish between new and existing entities you can implement https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/commons/docs/current/api/org/springframework/data/domain/Persistable.html[`Persistable`] with your entity and overwrite `isNew()` with your own logic.
One important constraint is that after saving an entity the entity shouldn't be _new_ anymore.
== Getting Help
With autoincrement-columns this happens automatically since the id gets set by Spring Data with the value from the id-column.
If you are not using autoincrement-columns, you can use a `BeforeSave`-listener which sets the id of the entity (see below).
=== NamingStrategy
If you use the standard implementations of `CrudRepository` as provided by Spring Data JDBC, it will expect a certain table structure.
You can tweak that by providing a https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/model/NamingStrategy.java[`NamingStrategy`] in your application context.
In many cases a https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/model/DelimiterNamingStrategy.java[`DelimiterNamingStrategy`]
might be good basis for a custom implementation
=== Events
Spring Data JDBC triggers events which will get published to any matching `ApplicationListener` in the application context.
For example, the following listener will get invoked before an Aggregate gets saved.
[source,java]
----
@Bean
public ApplicationListener<BeforeSaveEvent> timeStampingSaveTime() {
| before an aggregate root gets saved, i.e. inserted or updated but after the decision was made if it will get updated or deleted.
The event has a reference to an https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/core/conversion/AggregateChange.java[`AggregateChange`] instance.
The instance can be modified by adding or removing https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/core/conversion/DbAction.java[`DbAction`]s.
| after an aggregate root got created from a database `ResultSet` and all it's property set
|===
=== MyBatis
For each operation in `CrudRepository` Spring Data JDBC will execute multiple statements.
If there is a https://github.com/mybatis/mybatis-3/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/ibatis/session/SqlSessionFactory.java[`SqlSessionFactory`] in the application context, it will be checked if it offers a statement for each step.
If one is found, that statement will be used (including its configured mapping to an entity).
By default, the name of the statement is constructed by concatenating the fully qualified name of the entity type with `Mapper.` and a string determining the kind of statement.
E.g. if an instance of `org.example.User` is to be inserted, Spring Data JDBC will look for a statement named `org.example.UserMapper.insert`.
Upon execution of the statement an instance of [`MyBatisContext`] will get passed as an argument which makes various arguments available to the statement.
[cols="default,default,default,asciidoc"]
|===
| Name | Purpose | CrudRepository methods which might trigger this statement | Attributes available in the `MyBatisContext`
| `insert` | Insert for a single entity. This also applies for entities referenced by the aggregate root. | `save`, `saveAll`. |
`getInstance`:
the instance to be saved
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to be saved.
`get(<key>)`: id of the referencing entity, where `<key>` is the name of the back reference column as provided by the `NamingStrategy`.
| `update` | Update for a single entity. This also applies for entities referenced by the aggregate root. | `save`, `saveAll`.|
`getInstance`: the instance to be saved
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to be saved.
| `delete` | Delete a single entity. | `delete`, `deleteById`.|
`getId`: the id of the instance to be deleted
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to be deleted.
| `deleteAll.<propertyPath>` | Delete all entities referenced by any aggregate root of the type used as prefix via the given property path.
Note that the type used for prefixing the statement name is the name of the aggregate root, not the one of the entity to be deleted. | `deleteAll`.|
`getDomainType`: the type of the entities to be deleted.
| `deleteAll` | Delete all aggregate roots of the type used as the prefix | `deleteAll`.|
`getDomainType`: the type of the entities to be deleted.
| `delete.<propertyPath>` | Delete all entities referenced by an aggregate root via the given propertyPath | `deleteById`.|
`getId`: the id of the aggregate root for which referenced entities are to be deleted.
`getDomainType`: the type of the entities to be deleted.
| `findById` | Select an aggregate root by id | `findById`.|
`getId`: the id of the entity to load.
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to load.
| `findAll` | Select all aggregate roots | `findAll`.|
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to load.
| `findAllById` | Select a set of aggregate roots by ids | `findAllById`.|
`getId`: list of ids of the entities to load.
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to load.
| `findAllByProperty.<propertyName>` | Select a set of entities that is referenced by another entity. The type of the referencing entity is used for the prefix. The referenced entities type as the suffix. | All `find*` methods.|
`getId`: the id of the entity referencing the entities to be loaded.
`getDomainType`: the type of the entity to load.
| `count` | Count the number of aggregate root of the type used as prefix | `count` |
`getDomainType` the type of aggregate roots to count.
|===
==== NamespaceStrategy
You can customize the namespace part of a statement name using https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mybatis/NamespaceStrategy.java[`NamespaceStrategy`].
== Features planned for the not too distant future
=== Advanced query annotation support
* projections
* SpEL expressions
=== MyBatis per method support
The current MyBatis supported is rather elaborate in that it allows to execute multiple statements for a single method call.
But sometimes less is more, and it should be possible to annotate a method with a simple annotation to identify a SQL statement in a MyBatis mapping to be executed.
== Spring Boot integration
There is https://github.com/schauder/spring-data-jdbc-boot-starter[preliminary Spring Boot integration].
Currently you will need to build it locally.
If you are new to Spring Data JDBC read the following two articles https://spring.io/blog/2018/09/17/introducing-spring-data-jdbc["Introducing Spring Data JDBC"] and https://spring.io/blog/2018/09/24/spring-data-jdbc-references-and-aggregates["Spring Data JDBC, References, and Aggregates"]
== Getting Help
There are also examples in the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-examples/tree/master/jdbc[Spring Data Examples] project.
Right now the best source of information is the source code in this repository.
A very good source of information is the source code in this repository.
Especially the integration tests (if you are reading this on github, type `t` and then `IntegrationTests.java`)
Especially the integration tests (if you are reading this on github, type `t` and then `IntegrationTests.java`)
We are keeping an eye on the (soon to be created) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-data-jdbc[spring-data-jdbc tag on stackoverflow].
We are keeping an eye on the (soon to be created) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-data-jdbc[spring-data-jdbc tag on stackoverflow].
Jens Schauder
7 years ago