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Java Persistence API

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Transaction management refers to the tasks of processing multiple transactions issued by various clients of a database server in such a way that the ACID contract can be fulfilled, that is, the properties of atomicity, consistency preservation, isolation, and durability of each individual transaction can be guaranteed. Transaction management is generally understood as requiring serializability-based concurrency control as well as recovery from failures. Concurrency control is the task of scheduling transactions such that their serializability can be guaranteed, while recovery has to restore a consistent database state after a system or media failure. Assuming that the database server is in charge of the “C,” the former guarantees the “I” in ACID, the latter the “A” and “D” properties. Transaction management has to be highly efficient, as modern transaction servers need to accommodate thousands of transactions...

The Spring Framework provides a consistent abstraction for transaction management. The Spring Framework’s declarative transaction management is made possible with Spring aspect-oriented programming (AOP), although, as the transactional aspects code comes with the Spring Framework distribution and may be used in a boilerplate fashion, AOP concepts do not generally have to be understood to make effective use of this code.

Source: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/5.3.7/reference/html/data-access.html#transaction

Aspect-Oriented Programming

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) complements Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) by providing another way of thinking about program structure. The key unit of modularity in OOP is the class, whereas in AOP the unit of modularity is the aspect. Aspects enable the modularization of concerns such as transaction management that cut across multiple types and objects. (Such concerns are often termed crosscutting concerns in AOP literature.)
One of the key components of Spring is the AOP framework. While the Spring IoC (Inversion of control) container does not depend on AOP, meaning you do not need to use AOP if you don’t want to, AOP complements Spring IoC to provide a very capable middleware solution.

Source: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/5.3.7/reference/html/core.html#aop

Use a Higher-level Database Migration Tool

Spring Boot supports two higher-level migration tools: Flyway and Liquibase.

Example how how to set things up with Liquibase: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/v2.1.18.RELEASE/spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-liquibase

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import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.ElementCollection;
import javax.persistence.EmbeddedId;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Inheritance;
import javax.persistence.InheritanceType;
import javax.persistence.Table;


@Entity
@Table(name = "ToscaProperty")
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS)
@Data
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = false)
public class JpaToscaProperty extends PfConcept implements PfAuthorative<ToscaProperty> {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1675770231921107988L;

    @EmbeddedId
    @VerifyKey
    @NotNull
    private PfReferenceKey key;

    @Column
    @VerifyKey
    @NotNull
    private PfConceptKey type;

    @Column
    @NotBlank
    private String description;

Spring Repository

Using With Spring Data JPA it needs , is a good choice to implement a repository for each modelrepositories.
The goal of Spring Data repository abstraction is to significantly reduce the amount of boilerplate code required to implement data access layers for various persistence stores.

Source: https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/data-commons/docs/2.5.1/reference/html/#repositories

@Repository
public interface JpaToscaPropertyRepository extends JpaRepository<JpaToscaProperty, PfReferenceKey> {

}

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@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
@DataJpaTest
@Import(value = ParticipantPolicyParameters.class)
@TestPropertySource(locations = {"classpath:application_test.properties"})
class JpaToscaPropertyRepositoryTest {

    @Autowired
    private JpaToscaPropertyRepository toscaPropertyRepository;

    @Test
    void test() {
        JpaToscaProperty toscaProperty = new JpaToscaProperty();
        PfReferenceKey key = toscaProperty.getKey();

        Map<String, String> metadata = new HashMap<>();
        metadata.put("Key", "Value");
        metadata.put("K", "V");

        List<JpaToscaConstraint> constraints = new ArrayList<>();
        String[] list = new String[] {"First", "Second"};
        constraints.add(new JpaToscaConstraintValidValues(Stream.of(list).collect(Collectors.toList())));

        toscaProperty.setDefaultValue("DefaultValue");
        toscaProperty.setDescription("Description");
        toscaProperty.setRequired(true);
        toscaProperty.setStatus(ToscaProperty.Status.EXPERIMENTAL);
        toscaProperty.setMetadata(metadata);
        toscaProperty.setConstraints(constraints);
        toscaPropertyRepository.save(toscaProperty);

        Optional<JpaToscaProperty> opt = toscaPropertyRepository.findById(key);
        assertThat(opt).isNotEmpty();
        JpaToscaProperty actual = opt.get();
        assertThat(actual.getDefaultValue()).isEqualTo(toscaProperty.getDefaultValue());
        assertThat(actual.getDescription()).isEqualTo(toscaProperty.getDescription());
        assertThat(actual.isRequired()).isEqualTo(toscaProperty.isRequired());
        assertThat(actual.getStatus()).isEqualTo(toscaProperty.getStatus());
        assertThat(actual.getType()).isEqualTo(toscaProperty.getType());
        assertThat(actual.getConstraints()).isEqualTo(toscaProperty.getConstraints());
    }
}

Using Dao

There Dao objects are already implemented in Policy Framework, and there is a way to use the whole Policy Framework implementation. them and avoid to create repositories, but It needs to create a new DefaultPfDao class that uses the Entity Manger with no "begin transaction" and no "commit".

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