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Java Persistence API

The Java Persistence API (JPA) is a specification of Java and it is a standard technology. It is used to persist data between Java object and relational database. JPA acts as a bridge between object-oriented domain models and relational database systems. As JPA is just a specification, it doesn't perform any operation by itself. By itself, JPA is not a tool or framework; rather, it defines a set of concepts that can be implemented by any tool or framework. While JPA's object-relational mapping (ORM) model was originally based on Hibernate, it has since evolved.

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Spring Data JPA, part of the larger Spring Data family, makes it easy to easily implement JPA based repositories. This module deals with enhanced support for JPA based data access layers. It makes it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use data access technologies.
It provides the following key dependencies:

Hibernate: One of the most popular JPA implementations.
Spring Data JPA: Helps you to implement JPA-based repositories.
Spring ORM: Core ORM support from the Spring Framework.

Source: https://spring.io/projects/spring-data-jpa

Spring and EclipseLink

By default Spring uses Hibernate as the default JPA vendor. Although Hibernate is a good choice, someone may prefers to use EclipseLink as it was supposed to be the reference implementation for the Java Persistence JSR.
How configuring Spring-Boot to use EclipseLink as the JPA provider: https://blog.marcnuri.com/spring-data-jpa-eclipselink-configuring-spring-boot-to-use-eclipselink-as-the-jpa-provider/

Jakarta Persistence

Jakarta Persistence defines a standard for management of persistence and object/relational mapping in Java(R) environments.

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HikariCP is a very lightweight (at roughly 130Kb) and lightning-fast JDBC connection pooling framework developed by Brett Wooldridge around 2012. It is a default in SpringBoot.

HikariCP-benchmark: https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP-benchmark

Transaction management

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

Policy Framework - Models

Models are implemented using Jakarta Persistence. Spring Data JPA needs same implementation.

Code Block

language	java
title	JpaToscaProperty
linenumbers	true

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

With Spring Data JPA, is a good choice to implement repositories.
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

Code Block

language	java
title	JpaToscaPropertyRepository
linenumbers	true

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

}

and also it needs to implement a JUnit test

Code Block

language	java
title	JpaToscaPropertyRepositoryTest
linenumbers	true

@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

Dao objects are already implemented in Policy Framework, and there is a way to use 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".

Code Block

language	java
title	DefaultPfDao
linenumbers	true

public class DefaultPfDao implements PfDao {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DefaultPfDao.class);

    private final EntityManager entityManager;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param entityManager EntityManager
     */
    public DefaultPfDao(EntityManager entityManager) {
        this.entityManager = entityManager;
    }

    @Override
    public void init(final DaoParameters daoParameters) throws PfModelException {
        // Not need
    }

    @Override
    public <T extends PfConcept> void create(final T obj) {
        if (obj == null) {
            return;
        }
        entityManager.merge(obj);
    }

    @Override
    public <T extends PfConcept> void delete(final T obj) {
        entityManager.remove(entityManager.contains(obj) ? obj : entityManager.merge(obj));
    }

EntityManager is not thread safe, and it need to use @PersistenceContext annotation, so Spring will inject a thread-safe proxy for the actual transactional EntityManager.

Code Block

language	java
title	PolicyModelsProviderImpl
linenumbers	true

@Service
@Transactional
public class PolicyModelsProviderImpl implements PolicyModelsProvider {

    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager entityManager;

    @Override
    public ToscaServiceTemplate createServiceTemplate(@NonNull ToscaServiceTemplate serviceTemplate) {
        LOGGER.debug("->createServiceTemplate: serviceTemplate={}", serviceTemplate);
        try {

            ToscaServiceTemplate createdServiceTemplate =
                    new SimpleToscaProvider().appendToServiceTemplate(new DefaultPfDao(entityManager),
                            new JpaToscaServiceTemplate(serviceTemplate)).toAuthorative();

            LOGGER.debug("<-createServiceTemplate: createdServiceTemplate={}", createdServiceTemplate);
            return createdServiceTemplate;
        } catch (Exception pfme) {
            throw new PfModelRuntimeException(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, pfme.getMessage(), pfme);
        }
    }

Spring Service

Example how to convert ControlLoopInstantiationProvider class in Spring style using "@Service" and "@Transactional"

Code Block

language	java
title	ControlLoopInstantiationProvider
linenumbers	true

@Service
public class ControlLoopInstantiationProvider {
    private final ControlLoopProvider controlLoopProvider;
    private final CommissioningProvider commissioningProvider;

    /**
     * Create a instantiation provider.
     *
     * @param databaseProviderParameters the parameters for database access
     */
    public ControlLoopInstantiationProvider(ControlLoopProvider controlLoopProvider,
            CommissioningProvider commissioningProvider) {
        this.controlLoopProvider = controlLoopProvider;
        this.commissioningProvider = commissioningProvider;
    }

    @Transactional
    public InstantiationResponse createControlLoops(ControlLoops controlLoops) throws PfModelException {
        for (ControlLoop controlLoop : controlLoops.getControlLoopList()) {
            ControlLoop checkControlLoop = controlLoopProvider.getControlLoop(controlLoop.getKey().asIdentifier());
            if (checkControlLoop != null) {
                throw new PfModelException(Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST,
                        controlLoop.getKey().asIdentifier() + " already defined");
            }
        }
        BeanValidationResult validationResult = validateControlLoops(controlLoops);
        if (!validationResult.isValid()) {
            throw new PfModelException(Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST, validationResult.getResult());
        }
        controlLoopProvider.createControlLoops(controlLoops.getControlLoopList());

        InstantiationResponse response = new InstantiationResponse();
        response.setAffectedControlLoops(controlLoops.getControlLoopList().stream()
                .map(cl -> cl.getKey().asIdentifier()).collect(Collectors.toList()));

        return response;
    }

Transaction

Transaction Propagation in SpringBoot:

REQUIRED is the default propagation. Spring checks if there is an active transaction, then it creates a new one if nothing existed;
For SUPPORTS, Spring first checks if an active transaction exists. If a transaction exists, then the existing transaction will be used. If there isn't a transaction, it is executed non-transactional;
When the propagation is MANDATORY, if there is an active transaction, then it will be used. If there isn't an active transaction, then Spring throws an exception;
For transactional logic with NEVER propagation, Spring throws an exception if there's an active transaction;
NOT_SUPPORTED, Spring at first suspends the current transaction if it exists, then the business logic is executed without a transaction;
When the propagation is REQUIRES_NEW, Spring suspends the current transaction if it exists and then creates a new one.

Read only Transaction

If the transaction is effectively read-only, it allows for corresponding optimizations at runtime. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1614139/spring-transactional-read-only-propagation)

Note: In Spring, @Transactional works by creating a proxy of the class and intercepting the annotated method (AOP Proxies). This means that @Transactional doesn't work if you are calling the annotated method from another method of the same class.

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Java Persistence API

Spring and EclipseLink

Jakarta Persistence

Transaction management

Aspect-Oriented Programming

Use a Higher-level Database Migration Tool

Policy Framework - Models

Spring Repository

Using Dao

Spring Service

Transaction

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