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jOOQ Masterclass

By : Anghel Leonard
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jOOQ Masterclass

By: Anghel Leonard

Overview of this book

jOOQ is an excellent query builder framework that allows you to emulate database-specific SQL statements using a fluent, intuitive, and flexible DSL API. jOOQ is fully capable of handling the most complex SQL in more than 30 different database dialects. jOOQ Masterclass covers jOOQ from beginner to expert level using examples (for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle) that show you how jOOQ is a mature and complete solution for implementing the persistence layer. You’ll learn how to use jOOQ in Spring Boot apps as a replacement for SpringTemplate and Spring Data JPA. Next, you’ll unleash jOOQ type-safe queries and CRUD operations via jOOQ’s records, converters, bindings, types, mappers, multi-tenancy, logging, and testing. Later, the book shows you how to use jOOQ to exploit powerful SQL features such as UDTs, embeddable types, embedded keys, and more. As you progress, you’ll cover trending topics such as identifiers, batching, lazy loading, pagination, and HTTP long conversations. For implementation purposes, the jOOQ examples explained in this book are written in the Spring Boot context for Maven/Gradle against MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and Oracle. By the end of this book, you’ll be a jOOQ power user capable of integrating jOOQ in the most modern and sophisticated apps including enterprise apps, microservices, and so on.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1: jOOQ as a Query Builder, SQL Executor, and Code Generator
4
Part 2: jOOQ and Queries
11
Part 3: jOOQ and More Queries
16
Part 4: jOOQ and Advanced SQL
22
Part 5: Fine-tuning jOOQ, Logging, and Testing

Chapter 18: jOOQ SPI (Providers and Listeners)

jOOQ provides a lot of hooks that allow us to alter its default behavior at different levels. Among these hooks, we have lightweight settings and configurations, and the heavy-duty, extremely stable Service Provider Interface (SPI) made of generators, providers, listeners, parsers, and so on. So, like any robust and mature technology, jOOQ comes with an impressive SPI dedicated to those corner cases where the core technology cannot help.

In this chapter, we scratch the surface of each of these hooks in order to expose the usage steps and some examples that will help you to understand how to develop your own implementations. Our agenda includes the following:

  • jOOQ settings
  • jOOQ configuration
  • jOOQ providers
  • jOOQ listeners
  • Altering the jOOQ code generation process

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