= 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.

== This is NOT an ORM

Spring Data JDBC does not try to be an ORM. It is not a competitor to JPA.
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

=== CRUD operations

In order use Spring Data JDBC you need the following:

1. An entity with an attribute marked as _id_ using the spring datas https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/commons/docs/current/api/org/springframework/data/annotation/Id.html[`@Id`] annotation.
+
[source,java]
----
 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());
}
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==== Supported types in your entity

Properties of the following types are currently supported:

* all primitive types and their boxed types (`int`, `float`, `Integer`, `Float` ...)

* enums get mapped to their name.

* `String`

* `java.util.Date`, `java.time.LocalDate`, `java.time.LocalDateTime`, `java.time.LocalTime`

and anything your database driver accepts.

* 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.

The handling of referenced entities is very limited.
Part of this is because this project is still before it's 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 your having n-1 or n-m references you are probably dealing with two separate Aggregates.
References between those should be encode 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]
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@Query("SELECT * FROM DUMMYENTITY WHERE name  < :upper and name > :lower")
List<DummyEntity> findByNameRange(@Param("lower") String lower, @Param("upper") String upper);
----

If you compile your sources with the `-parameters` compiler flag you can omit the `@Param` annotations.

=== 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 and `0` or `0.0` the entity is considered new.

When your data base 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.
With autoincrement columns this happens automatically since the the id gets set by Spring Data with the value from the id column.
If you are not using autoincrement columns you can use that using a `BeforeSave`-listener which sets the id of the entity (see below).

=== NamingStrategy

When 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.

=== Events

Spring Data Jdbc triggers events which will get publish to any matching `ApplicationListener`  in the application context.
For example the following listener will get invoked before an aggregate gets saved.

[source,java]
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@Bean
public ApplicationListener<BeforeSave> timeStampingSaveTime() {

	return event -> {

		Object entity = event.getEntity();
		if (entity instanceof Category) {
			Category category = (Category) entity;
			category.timeStamp();
		}
	};
}
----

.Available events
|===
| Event | When It's Published

| https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/event/BeforeDelete.java[`BeforeDelete`]
| before an aggregate root gets deleted.

| https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/event/AfterDelete.java[`AfterDelete`]
| after an aggregate root got deleted.

| https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/event/AfterDelete.java[`BeforeSave`]
| 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.

| https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/event/AfterSave.java[`AfterSave`]
| after an aggregate root gets saved, i.e. inserted or updated.

| https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-jdbc/blob/master/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/mapping/event/AfterDelete.java[`AfterCreation`]
| 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 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).

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.
|===

== Features planned for the not to far future

=== Advance query annotation support

* customizable `RowMapper`
* projections
* modifying queries
* 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.

=== Support of lists in entities

== 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.

== Getting Help

Right now the best source of information is the source code in this repository.
Especially the integration tests (When 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].

If you think you found a bug, or have a feature request please https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAJDBC/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel[create a ticket in our issue tracker].

== Execute Tests

=== Fast running tests

Fast running tests can executed with a simple

[source]
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mvn test
----

This will execute unit tests and integration tests using an in-memory database.

=== Running tests with a real database

To run the integration tests against a specific database you need to have the database running on your local machine and then execute.

[source]
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mvn test -Dspring.profiles.active=<databasetype>
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This will also execute the unit tests.

Currently the following _databasetypes_ are available:

* hsql (default, does not require a running database)
* mysql
* postgres

=== Run tests with all databases

[source]
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mvn test -Pall-dbs
----

This will execute the unit tests, and all the integration tests with all the databases we currently support for testing. The databases must be running.

== Contributing to Spring Data JDBC

Here are some ways for you to get involved in the community:

* Get involved with the Spring community by helping out on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-data-jdbc[stackoverflow] by responding to questions and joining the debate.
* Create https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAJDBC[JIRA] tickets for bugs and new features and comment and vote on the ones that you are interested in.
* Github is for social coding: if you want to write code, we encourage contributions through pull requests from http://help.github.com/forking/[forks of this repository]. If you want to contribute code this way, please reference a JIRA ticket as well covering the specific issue you are addressing.
* Watch for upcoming articles on Spring by http://spring.io/blog[subscribing] to spring.io.

Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request we will need you to https://cla.pivotal.io/sign/spring[sign the Contributor License Agreement]. Signing the contributor’s agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an author credit if we do. If you forget to do so, you'll be reminded when you submit a pull request. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and given the ability to merge pull requests.