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DAOs
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
If you're using jOOQ's code generator, you can configure it to generate POJOs and DAOs for you. jOOQ then generates one DAO per UpdatableRecord, i.e. per table with a single-column primary key. Generated DAOs implement a common jOOQ type called org.jooq.DAO. This type contains the following methods:
// <R> corresponds to the DAO's related table
// <P> corresponds to the DAO's related generated POJO type
// <T> corresponds to the DAO's related table's primary key type.
// Note that multi-column primary keys are not yet supported by DAOs
public interface DAO<R extends TableRecord<R>, P, T> {
// These methods allow for inserting POJOs
void insert(P object) throws DataAccessException;
void insert(P... objects) throws DataAccessException;
void insert(Collection<P> objects) throws DataAccessException;
// These methods allow for updating POJOs based on their primary key
void update(P object) throws DataAccessException;
void update(P... objects) throws DataAccessException;
void update(Collection<P> objects) throws DataAccessException;
// These methods allow for deleting POJOs based on their primary key
void delete(P... objects) throws DataAccessException;
void delete(Collection<P> objects) throws DataAccessException;
void deleteById(T... ids) throws DataAccessException;
void deleteById(Collection<T> ids) throws DataAccessException;
// These methods allow for checking record existence
boolean exists(P object) throws DataAccessException;
boolean existsById(T id) throws DataAccessException;
long count() throws DataAccessException;
// These methods allow for retrieving POJOs by primary key or by some other field
List<P> findAll() throws DataAccessException;
P findById(T id) throws DataAccessException;
<Z> List<P> fetch(Field<Z> field, Z... values) throws DataAccessException;
<Z> P fetchOne(Field<Z> field, Z value) throws DataAccessException;
// These methods provide DAO meta-information
Table<R> getTable();
Class<P> getType();
}
Besides these base methods, generated DAO classes implement various useful fetch methods. An incomplete example is given here, for the BOOK table:
// An example generated BookDao class
public class BookDao extends DAOImpl<BookRecord, Book, Integer> {
// Columns with primary / unique keys produce fetchOne() methods
public Book fetchOneById(Integer value) { ... }
// Other columns produce fetch() methods, returning several records
public List<Book> fetchByAuthorId(Integer... values) { ... }
public List<Book> fetchByTitle(String... values) { ... }
}
Note that you can further subtype those pre-generated DAO classes, to add more useful DAO methods to them. Using such a DAO is simple:
// Initialise an Configuration
Configuration configuration = new DefaultConfiguration().set(connection).set(SQLDialect.ORACLE);
// Initialise the DAO with the Configuration
BookDao bookDao = new BookDao(configuration);
// Start using the DAO
Book book = bookDao.findById(5);
// Modify and update the POJO
book.setTitle("1984");
book.setPublishedIn(1948);
bookDao.update(book);
// Delete it again
bookDao.delete(book);
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