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Yegor Bugayenko
18 August 2014
Fluent JDBC Decorator
This is how you fetch text from a SQL table with jcabi-jdbc:
String name = new JdbcSession(source)
.sql("SELECT name FROM employee WHERE id = ?")
.set(1234)
.select(new SingleOutcome<String>(String.class));
Simple and straight forward, isn’t it? The library simplifies interaction with relational databases via JDBC, avoiding the need to use ORM.
jcabi-jdbc is a lightweight wrapper of JDBC. It is very convenient to use when you don’t need a full-scale ORM (like Hibernate), but want just to select, insert, or update a few rows in a relational database.
Every instance of JdbcSession
is a “transaction” in a database.
You start it by instantiating the class with a single parameter—data source.
You can obtain the data source from your connection pool. There are many implementations of connection pools. I would recommend that you use BoneCP. Below is an example of how you would connect to PostgreSQL:
@Cacheable(forever = true)
private static DataSource source() {
BoneCPDataSource src = new BoneCPDataSource();
src.setDriverClass("org.postgresql.Driver");
src.setJdbcUrl("jdbc:postgresql://localhost/db_name");
src.setUser("jeff");
src.setPassword("secret");
return src;
}
Be sure to pay attention to the @Cacheable
annotation.
This post
explains how it can help you to cache Java method results for some time.
Setting the forever
attribute to true
means that we don’t want this
method to be called more than once. Instead, we want the connection pool
to be created just once, and every second call should return its
existing instance (kind of like a
Singleton pattern).
jcabi-jdbc website explains how you can insert, update, or delete a row. You can also execute any SQL statement.
By default, JdbcSession
closes the JDBC connection right after the
first select/update/insert operation. Simply put, it is designed
to be used mainly for single atomic transactions. However, it is
possible to leave the connection open and continue, for example:
new JdbcSession(source)
.autocommit(false)
.sql("START TRANSACTION")
.update()
.sql("DELETE FROM employee WHERE name = ?")
.set("Jeff Lebowski")
.update()
.sql("INSERT INTO employee VALUES (?)")
.set("Walter Sobchak")
.insert(Outcome.VOID)
.commit();
In this example we’re executing three SQL statements one by one, leaving
connection (and transaction) open until commit()
is called.