Db configuration

Configuration of Db and DbOom frameworks is set in DbManager and DbOomManager. Both classes are singleton beans.

There are two things to remember when talking about Db configuration.

1. Configure first! Try to configure before use or register entities. That would significantly reduce number of errors.
2. Be aware of JDBC driver varieties! JDBC drivers behave differently. Some have implemented most of the specified methods and provides enough meta-data, others omit some informations. Therefore, be patient and learn what your database driver can do; and configure DbOom accordingly.

DbManager

DbManager defines some providers:

• connectionProvider - default connection provider.
• sessionProvider - default session provider, by default it's ThreadDbSessionProvider.

and some query-related properties:

• forcePreparedStatement - if Db should always create prepared statements
• type, concurrencyType, holdability - default query options
• fetchSize, maxRows - default query values

and debug mode flag:

• debug - when turned on, prepared statement query will contains real values instead of ?

DbManager contains no logic.

DbOomManager

DbOomManager contains more options about tables and object mappings. First, there are properties regarding naming conventions:

• schemaName - schema name, sometimes needed by database
• tableNames - set of table naming strategy properties, like: uppercase, splitCamelCase, prefix, suffix…
• columnNames - set of column naming strategy properties.

There are properties about column alias:

• defaultColumnAliasType - default way how columns are aliased
• columnAliasSeparator - separator character used for some aliasing modes.

Besides configuration, DbOomManager is also a central place for storing mappings between entities and tables, and also a factory for entities and various DbOom classes. If you need, it make sense to override it.

Best practices

As said, every JDBC driver behaves differently. Here are some best practice you can use in your projects:

• Establish convention between entity names and tables names.
• Use strict matching, i.e. set correct letter case for table and column names.
• Bidirectional mapping between table and entity may not work because of missing meta-data in JDBC driver. Try using explicit conversion to types.
• Use code columnAliasType if needed.
• Use $C{} just for selected columns, and nothing else.
• Don't forget that letter case of tables is different when created from the code.

Very often (at the beginning of the project), DbOom is not working because of wrong letter case and mismatched conventions. Just experiment a bit until you set it right:) Once set, everything goes smoothly:)