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A wrapper for MySQL and SQLite connections for Java to make your life a lot easier and a lot saner when working with queries.
This library is merely a wrapper for the default Java SQL library intended to be used with MySQL (or MariaDB for that matter) or SQLite, this means that you also need the MySQL Java connector or the SQLite Java connector to actually connect to your database, but the Database#loadConnector(RDBMS, File, boolean) method allows you to add it at runtime.
To add MySQLw to your Gradle project, add the following line to your dependencies:
implementation 'com.ptsmods:mysqlw:1.9.2'
implementation 'com.ptsmods:mysqlw-collection:1.9.2' // For database-backed Java collections
implementation 'com.ptsmods:mysqlw-procedure:1.9.2' // For anything that has to do with procedures and triggersTo add MySQLw to your Maven project, add the following code segment to your pom.xml file:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ptsmods</groupId>
<artifactId>mysqlw</artifactId>
<version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ptsmods</groupId>
<artifactId>mysqlw-collection</artifactId>
<version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.ptsmods</groupId>
<artifactId>mysqlw-procedure</artifactId>
<version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>To start off, you should connect to your database. Assuming the MySQL Java connector is on your classpath too, you can do so with the following code:
String host = "localhost";
int port = 3306;
String name = "mydatabase";
String username = "root";
String password = null;
Database db = Database.connect(host, port, name, username, password);To connect to an SQLite database, all you have to do is supply the location of the database file.
You can do so like so:
Database db = Database.connect(new File("sqlite.db"));Instead of shadowing the connector library for the Relation Database Management System (RDBMS), you can download and load it with Database#loadConnector(RDBMS, File, boolean).
For instance, if you wish to download the MySQL connector and add it to the classpath, you can use
Database.loadConnector(Database.RDBMS.MySQL, "8.0.23", new File("mysql-connector.jar"), true);This will download the MySQL connector to mysql-connector.jar if it has not yet been downloaded to that location (if it has, it will ignore the downloading step as stated by the last parameter, the useCache boolean) and then add it to the classpath and verify that it worked.
If you use this method and it did not successfully manage to load the connector, it will likely throw an IOException.
It is not guaranteed that it will throw an exception on failure as an exception is only thrown while downloading, although without the connector, you'll get all kinds of other problems thrown anyway, so you'll find out nonetheless.
Selecting data is done easily. All data is parsed into a SelectResults object which is a list of SelectResultsRow which is a map of String keys and Object values.
Say you have the following table named people (credits to TutorialRepublic):
+----+------------+-----------+----------------------+
| id | first_name | last_name | email |
+----+------------+-----------+----------------------+
| 1 | Peter | Parker | [email protected] |
| 2 | John | Rambo | [email protected] |
| 3 | Clark | Kent | [email protected] |
| 4 | John | Carter | [email protected] |
| 5 | Harry | Potter | [email protected] |
+----+------------+-----------+----------------------+
If you wish to select the last_name column only you can do so with the following code segment:
SelectResults results = db.select("people", "last_name");Now if you wish to do the same, but only if the id is greater than 3, you could use
SelectResults results = db.select("people", "last_name", QueryCondition.greater("id", 3));Now if you wish to only return results whose email address starts with 'john' and order by first_name and you also want the first_name column returned and only want at most two elements, you can do so with
SelectResults results = db.select("people", new String[] {"first_name", "last_name"}, QueryConditions.create(QueryCondition.greater("id", 3)).and(QueryCondition.like("email", "john%")), QueryOrder.by("first_name"), QueryLimit.limit(2));Besides just passing a String as the column, you can pass any CharSequence, more specifically the QueryFunction.
In conclusion, the select method is any of the following:
Database.select(String table, CharSequence column);
Database.select(String table, CharSequence column, QueryCondition condition);
Database.select(String table, CharSequence column, QueryCondition condition, QueryOrder order, QueryLimit limit);
Database.select(String table, CharSequence[] columns);
Database.select(String table, CharSequence[] columns, QueryCondition condition);
Database.select(String table, CharSequence[] columns, QueryCondition condition, QueryOrder order, QueryLimit limit);Because using all those select methods can be quite tricky and messy, there's also a SelectBuilder.
As well as making selecting cleaner, SelectBuilder allows you to pass an alias for certain columns, e.g. selecting count(*) as count,
and you can select into tables and variables.
To create a new SelectBuilder, either use Database#selectBuilder(String) or SelectBuilder#create(Database, String).
To select a column, use SelectBuilder#select(CharSequence), SelectBuilder#select(CharSequence, String), SelectBuilder#select(CharSequence...) or SelectBuilder#select(Iterable). The second parameter of SelectBuilder#select(CharSequence, String) is an optional alias.
To select into a table or variable, use SelectBuilder#into(String).
To supply a condition, use SelectBuilder#where(QueryCondition).
To supply an order, use SelectBuilder#order(QueryOrder), SelectBuilder#order(String) or SelectBuilder#order(String, QueryOrder.QueryDirection).
And last but not least, you can supply a limit using SelectBuilder#limit(QueryLimit), SelectBuilder#limit(int) or SelectBuilder#limit(int, int).
Say you have a list of CharSequences you'd like to select from a table named users and you'd like to descendingly sort them by when they were created, but you only want 10 people from the 6th page and you only want people whose first name is John and whose last name starts with a D and you also wish to store the result in a table named tempusers and would like to select the created_at column as time, then you could use this example:
Database db = ...;
SelectResults res = db.selectBuilder("users")
.select(columns)
.select("created_at", "time")
.into("tempusers")
.where(QueryCondition.equals("first_name", "John").and(QueryCondition.like("last_name", "D%")))
.order("time", QueryOrder.OrderDirection.DESC)
.limit(10, 6 * 10)
.execute();Inserting one value into one column is the easiest method. It can easily be done using
db.insert("people", "first_name", "Tony");Inserting one row, but with multiple columns is nearly as easy. For that you could use
db.insert("people", new String[] {"first_name", "last_name", "email"}, new Object[] {"Tony", "Stark", "[email protected]"});You can, however, also insert multiple rows at once. For this use
db.insert("people", new String[] {"first_name", "last_name", "email"}, Lists.newArrayList(new Object[] {"Tony", "Stark", "[email protected]"}, new Object[] {"Thor", "Odinson", "[email protected]"}));You must also use this method if you wish to insert multiple values for one column, just wrap the name of that column in a String array.
You also have the option to update columns of a row when a row with the same value for the PRIMARY KEY column already exists. Say for example you have a table like people and id is the PRIMARY KEY, you could then overwrite the data that already exists or insert new data if it does not, for example:
db.insertUpdate("people", new String[] {"id", "first_name", "last_name", "email"}, new Object[] {3, "Thor", "Odinson", "[email protected]"}, ImmutableMap.<String, Object>builder().put("email", "[email protected]").build());This would try to insert a new row with the values 3, Thor, Odinson and [email protected] for columns id, first_name, last_name and email into the table, but because there is already a row with the value 3 for the PRIMARY KEY column (id), it insteads updates the value of column email of that row to '[email protected]'.
Last but not least, instead of updating on a duplicate PRIMARY KEY value, you can also choose to ignore the insertion.
An example of this would be
db.insertIgnore("people", new String[] {"id", "first_name", "last_name", "email"}, new Object[] {3, "Thor", "Odinson", "[email protected]"}, "id");Where the last parameter 'id' is the name of the table's PRIMARY KEY column.
This would end up doing nothing as there is already a row where column id has a value of 3.
Aside from SelectBuilder, there's also an InsertBuilder. This one is a little less sophisticated, however.
For the time being, you can only do normal insertions and replacements with this class.
To create an InsertBuilder, either use Database#insertBuilder(String, String...) or use InsertBuilder#create(Database, String, String...).
The String parameter here is the table to insert into and the String varargs are the columns to insert into.
To insert data, use InsertBuilder#insert(Object...), InsertBuilder#insert(Object[]... values) or InsertBuilder#insert(Iterable).
Then use either InsertBuilder#execute() or InsertBuilder#executeReplace() to execute either an insert query or a replace query.
You can also choose to update data rather than inserting it.
This can be done rather easily using
db.update("people", ImmutableMap.<String, Object>builder().put("email", null).build(), QueryCondition.greater("id", 4));This would set the email column to null for every row where id is greater than 4.
Besides inserting and updating, you can also replace rows.
This is essentially the same as deleting any row with the same value for the PRIMARY KEY column and then inserting this one instead.
The replace methods are the exact same as the insert methods as the queries look exactly the same, so for examples, have a look at inserting.
Creating tables has not been made simpler, but it sure has been made more sane.
Now creating tables can be done using the following example:
TablePreset.create("users")
.putColumn("id", ColumnType.BIGINT.struct()
.configure(sup -> sup.apply(null))
.setPrimary(true)
.setNullAllowed(false))
.putColumn("username", ColumnType.VARCHAR.struct()
.configure(sup -> sup.apply(16))
.setNullAllowed(false))
.putColumn("password", ColumnType.CHAR.struct()
.configure(sup -> sup.apply(128))
.setNullAllowed(false))
.create(db);This preset would compile to CREATE TABLE users (id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, username VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL, password CHAR(128) NOT NULL);.
As you can see, it looks a little bit complicated at first sight, but it sure looks way prettier and leaves a lot less room for mistakes than just a plain CREATE TABLE query.
For starters the TablePreset#create(String) method. This method creates a new TablePreset with the given name. This name can be changed later and if you plan on using the preset multiple times, it is recommended you do so using preset.setName("newname").create(db).
Next we have putting columns.
Columns are gotten by running ColumnType#struct() on your desired ColumnType.
If the selected ColumnType has a supplier that requires parameters, it is mandatory that you configure it.
You can do so using ColumnStructure#configure(Function) where the function takes a supplier of sorts and returns its value after passing it your desired values.
ColumnTypes can have suppliers for various reasons, but most often it requires one value which is the length or maximum length of the type.
In any case, any values passed to the supplier is what appears in the parentheses behind it.
Some, not all, suppliers also allow for being passed null values. Integers are an example of this.
Last we have any attributes the column might have, this could be anything and I suggest you read the javadoc on classes in the com.ptsmods.mysqlw.table class to find out more.
Next we have the real cool feature, database-backed collections.
These collections are just ordinary lists, sets or maps, but their values are never present on the VM, at least not in a significant way.
These classes were written with concurrent modifications and efficiency in mind. Two instances connected to the same database could edit the same list, set or map at the same time and there would not be an issue.
All DbCollection classes require functions to convert their elements or keys and values to and from Strings in order to be stored.
Basic functions for this and a registry for your own can be found in the DbCF (Database Collection Functions) class.
This list works with a table with two columns in the background. One for an id and one for a value.
Since with lists the order matters and with MySQL auto-incrementing ids can be a bit unreliable (especially when adding a value somewhere in the list instead of at the end), whenever you remove a value or add one somewhere that's not at the end, the entire list is loaded, altered and inserted again.
This can in some cases, especially with big lists, be problematic as it makes things slow, so keep that in mind.
This set is just like any other set, except its values are stored in a table.
The table consists of one column, that being a TEXT type.
Just like your usual set, this set does not allow null or duplicate values and is more or less randomly ordered.
A database-backed map, what else is there to say?
Oh yeah, the table backing this map consists of two columns, one being the key with a type of VARCHAR(255), keep that maximum length in mind, the other being the value with a type of TEXT.
Getting an instance of a DbList or a DbSet is more or less the same except for lists the method signature is DbList#getList(Database, String, Class) while for sets it's DbSet#getSet(Database, String, Class), but you pass them the same parameters.
Getting a new list is thus done as follows:
List<String> list = DbList.getList(db, "testlist", String.class);In this method, the parameters are in order: the database this list is on, the name of this list (used to determine the table name which is 'list_' + name) and the class of the type of this list.
The last paremeter can be any class you like so long as it has type converters registered with DbCF#registerConverters(Class, BiFunction, BiFunction).
By default all basic Java types (String, Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float and Double) are registered.
You can, however, also nest DbLists, DbSets and DbMaps, to do so, you need to acquire their respective converters using the methods in the DbCF class.
These methods are:
dbListToStringFunc()dbListFromStringFunc(Class)dbListFromStringFunc(BiFunction, BiFunction)dbSetToStringFunc()dbSetFromStringFunc(Class)dbSetFromStringFunc(BiFunction, BiFunction)dbMapToStringFunc()dbMapFromStringFunc(Class, Class)dbMapFromStringFunc(BiFunction, BiFunction, BiFunction, BiFunction)
Note that the methods that require classes can only be used if those classes have registered type converters.
Creating a DbMap is nearly the same as creating a DbList or DbSet, except you pass two types or two pairs of type converters.
An example would be:
Map<String, Integer> map = DbMap.getMap(db, "testmap", String.class, Integer.class);
Since 1.7, you can create triggers and procedures with MySQLw. These are created using the BlockBuilder class which has a method for every single statement supported by MySQLw and can be used to create most basic triggers and procedures. Any statement that's not supported can still be used with BlockBuilder#raw(String) or RawStmt#raw(String), but if you rely on these, I suggest you file an issue.
You can create triggers using Database#createTrigger(String, String, TriggeringEvent, BlockBuilder) which creates a trigger with the given name on the given table.
Procedures can be created with Database#createProcedure(String, ProcedureParameter[], BlockBuilder) and called with Database#call(String, Object...).
For an example on how to use BlockBuilder to create blocks, have a look at the test I made for it.
It should also be noted that you can create your own statements if you wish, you'll just have to use BlockBuilder#stmt(Statement) to actually add it to BlockBuilders.
Any Statement implementing OpeningStatement will increase the indentation by one and any Statement implementing ClosingStatement will decrease it by one.
By default, MySQLw can use a null value, any type of Number, String or byte array (it is converted to hex String representation) in queries, but to do so, it must first prepare them.
This preparation is known as type conversion. To register your own type converter so you can put for example entire lists into a column, use the Database#registerTypeConverter(Class, Function) method.
An example of a type converter would be:
Gson gson = new Gson();
Database.registerTypeConverter(List.class, list -> Database.enquote(gson.toJson(list)), s -> gson.fromJson(s, List.class));This would allow you to use lists when inserting data by turning the list into a JSON representation of it and enquoting it.
Using this newly added type converter is as simple as just passing it as a value when inserting, e.g.:
db.insert("data", "value", Lists.newArrayList("This is a JSON list", "with numerous values", "How neat!"));Which would put the string '["This is a JSON list", "with numerous values", "How neat!"]' into the query.
Do not forget that enquoting is mandatory whenever you insert anything as a literal String into a table, not doing so will end up in SQLExceptions.
To count the amount of columns in a table, you can use the Database#count(String, String, QueryCondition) method.
This is basically a select query, except it only returns the requested value of count.
To use this, you could try the following code:
int count = db.count("people", "*", QueryCondition.like("email", "john%"));This will return the amount of rows in the table people where the email starts with 'john'.
In case of the previous table, this would be 2.
To completely wipe a table (truncating), you can use
db.truncate("people");This will clear the whole table and also reset the starting value of the id column assuming it has the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute so any new entries will start at 1.
Deleting data is also made easy as that is the entire purpose of this library. It can be done using the following code:
int affected = db.delete("people", QueryCondtions.create(QueryCondition.equals("first_name", "Harry")).or(QueryCondition.equals("first_name", "Clark")));This would remove Harry Potter and Clark Kent from the table and return 2 as that is the amount of rows it affected.
This class is used to put a raw String into a query. This is especially useful when you want to check against JSON columns or any other context where you may want to use any sort of function (count is also an example).
To use a QueryFunction in a select query, you could use the following:
SelectResults results = db.select("people", new QueryFunction("count(*)"), null, null);This would return a SelectResults object with its only value being the result of the count function. (Although in this case, you could also use the Database#count(String, String, QueryCondition) method.)
Enquoting is as simple as putting a String in between single quotes and escaping all single quotes it contains by replacing them with two single quotes.
Enquoting can be done using
String s = Database.enquote("Test'S'tring");This would return 'Test''S''tring which can safely be used to insert directly into a query.
If you wish to just escape quotes and don't put the string in two single quotes in a whole, you can use
String s = Database.escapeQuotes("Test'S'tring");This would return Test''S''tring which is the same value as with enquoting, except not put in quotes.
To completely delete a table (dropping), you can use the following code:
db.drop("people");Nearly every method that uses the database connection in one way or another has an async version that uses CompletableFutures to run the method asynchronously.
For example, to insert data asynchronously, you can do the following:
db.selectAsync("people", "*").thenAccept(results -> {
// Do something with the results.
});This will prevent blocking the main thread or whatever thread you wish to run it on.
By default, these CompletableFutures use an executor that suits the RDBMS type. This is a normal cached threadpool for MySQL (see Executors#newCachedThreadPool(ThreadFactory)) and a fixed-size threadpool that only allows one thread for SQLite. The latter is to prevent blocking.
This executor can be gotten using Database#getExecutor() and set using Database#setExecutor(executor).
With asynchronous calls always comes the struggle of correctly catching exceptions, for this reason you can set your own errorhandler using Database#setErrorHandler(Consumer), this consumer will then be called whenever an error was thrown during any asynchronous database call.