java.util.stream with ResultSet

Question

I have few tables with big amount of data (about 100 million records). So I can't store this data in memory but I would like to stream this result set using java.util.stream class and pass this stream to another class. I read about Stream.of and Stream.Builder operators but they are buffered streams in memory. So is there any way to resolve this question? Thanks in advance.

UPDATE #1

Okay I googled and found jooq library. I'm not sure but looks like it could be applicable to my test case. To summarize I have few tables with big amount of data. I would like to stream my resultset and transfer this stream to another method. Something like this:

// why return Stream<String>? Because my result set has String type
private Stream<Record> writeTableToStream(DataSource dataSource, String table) {

    Stream<Record> record = null;
    try (Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection()) {
        String sql = "select * from " + table;

        try (PreparedStatement pSt = connection.prepareStatement(sql)) {
            connection.setAutoCommit(false);
            pSt.setFetchSize(5000);
            ResultSet resultSet = pSt.executeQuery();
            //
            record = DSL.using(connection)
                    .fetch(resultSet).stream();
        }
    } catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
        logger.error(sqlEx);
    }

    return record;
}

Could please someone advise, am I on correct way? Thanks.

UPDATE #2

I made some experiment on jooq and could say now that above decision is not suitable for me. This code record = DSL.using(connection).fetch(resultSet).stream(); takes too much time

Answer 1

The first thing you have to understand is that code like

try (Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection()) {
    …
    try (PreparedStatement pSt = connection.prepareStatement(sql)) {
        …
        return stream;
    }
}

does not work as by the time you leave the try blocks, the resources are closed while the processing of the Stream hasn’t even started.

The resource management construct “try with resources” works for resources used within a block scope inside a method but you are creating a factory method returning a resource. Therefore you have to ensure that the closing of the returned stream will close the resources and the caller is responsible for closing the Stream.

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Further, you need a function which produces an item out of a single line from the ResultSet. Supposing, you have a method like

Record createRecord(ResultSet rs) {
    …
}

you may create a Stream<Record> basically like

Stream<Record> stream = StreamSupport.stream(new Spliterators.AbstractSpliterator<Record>(
    Long.MAX_VALUE,Spliterator.ORDERED) {
        @Override
        public boolean tryAdvance(Consumer<? super Record> action) {
            if(!resultSet.next()) return false;
            action.accept(createRecord(resultSet));
            return true;
        }
    }, false);

But to do it correctly you have to incorporate the exception handling and closing of resources. You can use Stream.onClose to register an action that will be performed when the Stream gets closed, but it has to be a Runnable which can not throw checked exceptions. Similarly the tryAdvance method is not allowed to throw checked exceptions. And since we can’t simply nest try(…) blocks here, the program logic of suppression exceptions thrown in close, when there is already a pending exception, doesn’t come for free.

To help us here, we introduce a new type which can wrap closing operations which may throw checked exceptions and deliver them wrapped in an unchecked exception. By implementing AutoCloseable itself, it can utilize the try(…) construct to chain close operations safely:

interface UncheckedCloseable extends Runnable, AutoCloseable {
    default void run() {
        try { close(); } catch(Exception ex) { throw new RuntimeException(ex); }
    }
    static UncheckedCloseable wrap(AutoCloseable c) {
        return c::close;
    }
    default UncheckedCloseable nest(AutoCloseable c) {
        return ()->{ try(UncheckedCloseable c1=this) { c.close(); } };
    }
}

With this, the entire operation becomes:

private Stream<Record> tableAsStream(DataSource dataSource, String table)
    throws SQLException {

    UncheckedCloseable close=null;
    try {
        Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection();
        close=UncheckedCloseable.wrap(connection);
        String sql = "select * from " + table;
        PreparedStatement pSt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
        close=close.nest(pSt);
        connection.setAutoCommit(false);
        pSt.setFetchSize(5000);
        ResultSet resultSet = pSt.executeQuery();
        close=close.nest(resultSet);
        return StreamSupport.stream(new Spliterators.AbstractSpliterator<Record>(
            Long.MAX_VALUE,Spliterator.ORDERED) {
            @Override
            public boolean tryAdvance(Consumer<? super Record> action) {
                try {
                    if(!resultSet.next()) return false;
                    action.accept(createRecord(resultSet));
                    return true;
                } catch(SQLException ex) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(ex);
                }
            }
        }, false).onClose(close);
    } catch(SQLException sqlEx) {
        if(close!=null)
            try { close.close(); } catch(Exception ex) { sqlEx.addSuppressed(ex); }
        throw sqlEx;
    }
}

This method wraps the necessary close operation for all resources, Connection, Statement and ResultSet within one instance of the utility class described above. If an exception happens during the initialization, the close operation is performed immediately and the exception is delivered to the caller. If the stream construction succeeds, the close operation is registered via onClose.

Therefore the caller has to ensure proper closing like

try(Stream<Record> s=tableAsStream(dataSource, table)) {
    // stream operation
}

Note that also the delivery of an SQLException via RuntimeException has been added to the tryAdvance method. Therefore you may now add throws SQLException to the createRecord method without problems.