Context Converter
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The previous section discussed the generic data type conversion API represented by the org.jooq.Converter type. Unlike org.jooq.Binding, a Converter does not get access to a org.jooq.Configuration in any way, and as such, makes dependency injection of third party logic into converters difficult. A common use-case is to implement a Jackson based converter for JSON processing, and to configure that Jackson ObjectMapper somewhere. With Converter, the only ways to do this include:
- Creating a
staticglobal variable somewhere and accessing that. - Resorting to
java.lang.ThreadLocalusage, before executing a query.
Both of these options are certainly viable, but don't feel right. This is why a new org.jooq.ContextConverter has been introduced, a subtype of the org.jooq.Converter, exposing additional methods:
// A ContextConverter can be used wherever a Converter can be used
public interface ContextConverter<T, U> extends Converter<T, U> {
// Additional, specialised from(T):U and to(U):T methods receive a ConverterContext type,
// which gives access to your Configuration from within the ContextConverter
U from(T databaseObject, ConverterContext ctx);
T to(U userObject, ConverterContext ctx);
// The usual Converter methods don't have to be implemented and won't be called by
// jOOQ internals, if you're implementing ContextConverter. The default implementation
// uses an unspecified, internal ConverterContext
@Override
default T to(U userObject) {
return to(userObject, converterContext());
}
@Override
default U from(T databaseObject) {
return from(databaseObject, converterContext());
}
}
If you provide jOOQ with an org.jooq.ContextConverter, then jOOQ will guarantee that the more specialised from() and to() methods are called, which are receiving a org.jooq.converterContext, which provides access to the ubiquitous org.jooq.Configuration. In order to provide your ContextConverter with custom configuration, just use Configuration::data:
// Configuring your Configuration, e.g. with Spring:
Configuration configuration = new DefaultConfiguration();
configuration.data("my-configuration-key", myConfigurationValue);
// And then:
public class MyContextConverter implements ContextConverter<Integer, String> {
@Override
public String from(Integer databaseObject, ConverterContext ctx) {
if (ctx.configuration().data("my-configuration-key") != null)
return "configuration enabled";
else
return "configuration disabled";
}
}
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