Our example reads inventory and vendor information from
flat text files, encapsulates this data in objects of
the appropriate type, and then writes each object to an
EntityStore.
To begin, we import the Java classes that our example needs. Most of the imports are related to reading the raw data from flat text files and breaking them apart for usage with our data classes. We also import classes from the DB package, but we do not actually import any classes from the DPL. The reason why is because we have placed almost all of our DPL work off into other classes, so there is no need for direct usage of those APIs here.
package persist.gettingStarted; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
Now we can begin the class itself. Here we set default paths
for the on-disk resources that we require (the environment
home, and the location of the text files containing our sample
data). We also declare DataAccessor
and MyDbEnv members. We describe these
classes and show their implementation in
DataAccessor.java
and
MyDbEnv.
public class ExampleDatabasePut {
private static File myDbEnvPath = new File("/tmp/JEDB");
private static File inventoryFile = new File("./inventory.txt");
private static File vendorsFile = new File("./vendors.txt");
private DataAccessor da;
// Encapsulates the environment and data store.
private static MyDbEnv myDbEnv = new MyDbEnv();
Next, we provide our usage()
method. The command line options provided there are necessary
only if the default values to the on-disk resources are not
sufficient.
private static void usage() {
System.out.println("ExampleDatabasePut [-h <env directory>]");
System.out.println(" [-i <inventory file>] [-v <vendors file>]");
System.exit(-1);
}
Our main() method is also reasonably
self-explanatory. We simply instantiate an
ExampleDatabasePut object there and then
call its run() method. We also provide a
top-level try block there for any exceptions that might be thrown
during runtime.
Notice that the finally statement in the
top-level try block calls
MyDbEnv.close(). This method closes our
EntityStore and Environment
objects. By placing it here in the finally
statement, we can make sure that our store and environment are
always cleanly closed.
public static void main(String args[]) {
ExampleDatabasePut edp = new ExampleDatabasePut();
try {
edp.run(args);
} catch (DatabaseException dbe) {
System.err.println("ExampleDatabasePut: " + dbe.toString());
dbe.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
myDbEnv.close();
}
System.out.println("All done.");
}
Our run() method does four
things. It calls MyDbEnv.setup(),
which opens our Environment and
EntityStore. It then instantiates a
DataAccessor object, which we will use
to write data to the store. It calls
loadVendorsDb() which loads all of the
vendor information. And then it calls
loadInventoryDb() which loads all of
the inventory information.
Notice that the MyDbEnv
object is being setup as read-write. This results in the
EntityStore being opened for
transactional support.
(See MyDbEnv
for implementation details.)
private void run(String args[])
throws DatabaseException {
// Parse the arguments list
parseArgs(args);
myDbEnv.setup(myDbEnvPath, // Path to the environment home
false); // Environment read-only?
// Open the data accessor. This is used to store
// persistent objects.
da = new DataAccessor(myDbEnv.getEntityStore());
System.out.println("loading vendors db....");
loadVendorsDb();
System.out.println("loading inventory db....");
loadInventoryDb();
}
We can now implement the loadVendorsDb()
method. This method is responsible for reading the vendor
contact information from the appropriate flat-text file,
populating Vendor class objects with the
data and then writing it to the EntityStore.
As explained above, each individual object is written with
transactional support. However, because a transaction handle is
not explicitly used, the write is performed using auto-commit.
This happens because the EntityStore
was opened to support transactions.
To actually write each class to the
EntityStore, we simply call the
PrimaryIndex.put() method for the
Vendor entity instance. We obtain this
method from our DataAccessor
class.
private void loadVendorsDb()
throws DatabaseException {
// loadFile opens a flat-text file that contains our data
// and loads it into a list for us to work with. The integer
// parameter represents the number of fields expected in the
// file.
List vendors = loadFile(vendorsFile, 8);
// Now load the data into the store.
for (int i = 0; i < vendors.size(); i++) {
String[] sArray = (String[])vendors.get(i);
Vendor theVendor = new Vendor();
theVendor.setVendorName(sArray[0]);
theVendor.setAddress(sArray[1]);
theVendor.setCity(sArray[2]);
theVendor.setState(sArray[3]);
theVendor.setZipcode(sArray[4]);
theVendor.setBusinessPhoneNumber(sArray[5]);
theVendor.setRepName(sArray[6]);
theVendor.setRepPhoneNumber(sArray[7]);
// Put it in the store.
da.vendorByName.put(theVendor);
}
}
Now we can implement our loadInventoryDb()
method. This does exactly the same thing as the
loadVendorsDb()
method.
private void loadInventoryDb()
throws DatabaseException {
// loadFile opens a flat-text file that contains our data
// and loads it into a list for us to work with. The integer
// parameter represents the number of fields expected in the
// file.
List inventoryArray = loadFile(inventoryFile, 6);
// Now load the data into the store. The item's sku is the
// key, and the data is an Inventory class object.
for (int i = 0; i < inventoryArray.size(); i++) {
String[] sArray = (String[])inventoryArray.get(i);
String sku = sArray[1];
Inventory theInventory = new Inventory();
theInventory.setItemName(sArray[0]);
theInventory.setSku(sArray[1]);
theInventory.setVendorPrice(
(new Float(sArray[2])).floatValue());
theInventory.setVendorInventory(
(new Integer(sArray[3])).intValue());
theInventory.setCategory(sArray[4]);
theInventory.setVendor(sArray[5]);
// Put it in the store. Note that this causes our secondary key
// to be automatically updated for us.
da.inventoryBySku.put(theInventory);
}
}
The remainder of this example simple parses the command line and loads data from a flat-text file. There is nothing here that is of specific interest to the DPL, but we show this part of the example anyway in the interest of completeness.
private static void parseArgs(String args[]) {
for(int i = 0; i < args.length; ++i) {
if (args[i].startsWith("-")) {
switch(args[i].charAt(1)) {
case 'h':
myDbEnvPath = new File(args[++i]);
break;
case 'i':
inventoryFile = new File(args[++i]);
break;
case 'v':
vendorsFile = new File(args[++i]);
break;
default:
usage();
}
}
}
}
private List loadFile(File theFile, int numFields) {
List<String[]> records = new ArrayList<String[]>();
try {
String theLine = null;
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(theFile);
BufferedReader br =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis));
while((theLine=br.readLine()) != null) {
String[] theLineArray = theLine.split("#");
if (theLineArray.length != numFields) {
System.out.println("Malformed line found in " +
theFile.getPath());
System.out.println("Line was: '" + theLine);
System.out.println("length found was: " +
theLineArray.length);
System.exit(-1);
}
records.add(theLineArray);
}
// Close the input stream handle
fis.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.err.println(theFile.getPath() + " does not exist.");
e.printStackTrace();
usage();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("IO Exception: " + e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(-1);
}
return records;
}
protected ExampleDatabasePut() {}
}