How to java-configure separate datasources for spring batch data and business data? Should I even do it?

Question

My main job does only read operations and the other one does some writing but on MyISAM engine which ignores transactions, so I wouldn't require necessarily transaction support. How can I configure Spring Batch to have its own datasource for the JobRepository, separate from the one holding the business data? The initial one datasource-configurations is done like the following:

@Configuration
public class StandaloneInfrastructureConfiguration {

    @Autowired
    Environment env;

    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {
      LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean em = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
      em.setDataSource(dataSource());
      em.setPackagesToScan(new String[] { "org.podcastpedia.batch.*" });

      JpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
      em.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
      em.setJpaProperties(additionalJpaProperties());

      return em;
    }

    Properties additionalJpaProperties() {
          Properties properties = new Properties();
          properties.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "none");
          properties.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", "org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect");
          properties.setProperty("hibernate.show_sql", "true");

          return properties;
    }

    @Bean
    public DataSource dataSource(){

       return DataSourceBuilder.create()
                .url(env.getProperty("db.url"))
                .driverClassName(env.getProperty("db.driver"))
                .username(env.getProperty("db.username"))
                .password(env.getProperty("db.password"))
                .build();          
    }

    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager(EntityManagerFactory emf){
      JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
      transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(emf);

      return transactionManager;
    }
}

and then it is imported in the Job's configuration class where the @EnableBatchProcessing annotation automagically makes use of it. My initial thought was to try to set the configuration class extend the DefaultBatchConfigurer, but then I get a

BeanCurrentlyInCreationException ( org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCurrentlyInCreationException: Error creating bean with name jobBuilders: Requested bean is currently in creation: Is there an unresolvable circular reference?):

@Configuration
@EnableBatchProcessing
@Import({StandaloneInfrastructureConfiguration.class, NotifySubscribersServicesConfiguration.class})
public class NotifySubscribersJobConfiguration extends DefaultBatchConfigurer {

    @Autowired
    private JobBuilderFactory jobBuilders;

    @Autowired
    private StepBuilderFactory stepBuilders;

    @Autowired
    private DataSource dataSource;

    @Autowired
    Environment env;

    @Override
    @Autowired
    public void setDataSource(javax.sql.DataSource dataSource) {
        super.setDataSource(batchDataSource());
    }

    private DataSource batchDataSource(){          
       return DataSourceBuilder.create()
                .url(env.getProperty("batchdb.url"))
                .driverClassName(env.getProperty("batchdb.driver"))
                .username(env.getProperty("batchdb.username"))
                .password(env.getProperty("batchdb.password"))
                .build();          
    } 

    @Bean
    public ItemReader<User> notifySubscribersReader(){

        JdbcCursorItemReader<User> reader = new JdbcCursorItemReader<User>();
        String sql = "select * from users where is_email_subscriber is not null";

        reader.setSql(sql);
        reader.setDataSource(dataSource);
        reader.setRowMapper(rowMapper());       

        return reader;
    }
........
}

Any thoughts are more than welcomed. The project is available on GitHub - https://github.com/podcastpedia/podcastpedia-batch

Thanks a bunch.

Frozen · Answer 1 · 2014-09-12T16:01:15.693

Ok, this is strange but it works. Moving the datasources to it's own configuration class works just fine and one is able to autowire.

The example is a multi-datasource version of Spring Batch Service Example:

DataSourceConfiguration:

public class DataSourceConfiguration {

    @Value("classpath:schema-mysql.sql")
    private Resource schemaScript;

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public DataSource hsqldbDataSource() throws SQLException {
        final SimpleDriverDataSource dataSource = new SimpleDriverDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriver(new org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver());
        dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:hsqldb:mem:mydb");
        dataSource.setUsername("sa");
        dataSource.setPassword("");
        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    public JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate(final DataSource dataSource) {
        return new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
    }

    @Bean
    public DataSource mysqlDataSource() throws SQLException {
        final SimpleDriverDataSource dataSource = new SimpleDriverDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriver(new com.mysql.jdbc.Driver());
        dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:mysql://localhost/spring_batch_example");
        dataSource.setUsername("test");
        dataSource.setPassword("test");
        DatabasePopulatorUtils.execute(databasePopulator(), dataSource);
        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    public JdbcTemplate mysqlJdbcTemplate(@Qualifier("mysqlDataSource") final DataSource dataSource) {
        return new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
    }

    private DatabasePopulator databasePopulator() {
        final ResourceDatabasePopulator populator = new ResourceDatabasePopulator();
        populator.addScript(schemaScript);
        return populator;
    }
}

BatchConfiguration:

@Configuration
@EnableBatchProcessing
@Import({ DataSourceConfiguration.class, MBeanExporterConfig.class })
public class BatchConfiguration {

    @Autowired
    private JobBuilderFactory jobs;

    @Autowired
    private StepBuilderFactory steps;

    @Bean
    public ItemReader<Person> reader() {
        final FlatFileItemReader<Person> reader = new FlatFileItemReader<Person>();
        reader.setResource(new ClassPathResource("sample-data.csv"));
        reader.setLineMapper(new DefaultLineMapper<Person>() {
            {
                setLineTokenizer(new DelimitedLineTokenizer() {
                    {
                        setNames(new String[] { "firstName", "lastName" });
                    }
                });
                setFieldSetMapper(new BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper<Person>() {
                    {
                        setTargetType(Person.class);
                    }
                });
            }
        });
        return reader;
    }

    @Bean
    public ItemProcessor<Person, Person> processor() {
        return new PersonItemProcessor();
    }

    @Bean
    public ItemWriter<Person> writer(@Qualifier("mysqlDataSource") final DataSource dataSource) {
        final JdbcBatchItemWriter<Person> writer = new JdbcBatchItemWriter<Person>();
        writer.setItemSqlParameterSourceProvider(new BeanPropertyItemSqlParameterSourceProvider<Person>());
        writer.setSql("INSERT INTO people (first_name, last_name) VALUES (:firstName, :lastName)");
        writer.setDataSource(dataSource);
        return writer;
    }

    @Bean
    public Job importUserJob(final Step s1) {
        return jobs.get("importUserJob").incrementer(new RunIdIncrementer()).flow(s1).end().build();
    }

    @Bean
    public Step step1(final ItemReader<Person> reader,
            final ItemWriter<Person> writer, final ItemProcessor<Person, Person> processor) {
        return steps.get("step1")
                .<Person, Person> chunk(1)
                .reader(reader)
                .processor(processor)
                .writer(writer)
                .build();
    }
}

This is a perfect answer. It was confusing why after I added in a business datasource that Spring Batch was trying to also use it for the meta-data tables. It's annoying that this is the default behavior, rather than requiring an explicit override. — bdetweiler, Dec 05 '17 at 15:40
If you care to use configuration properties to load up the configuration values of the data sources, then this https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-two-datasources shows a similar approach but loads up the custom properties automatically. — Philippe, Jun 06 '18 at 18:53
Yes, I have H2 dependency. So Datasource for the batch requirements must be specified manually? — marekmuratow, Aug 26 '18 at 09:53
Could you please guide me here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62510899/spring-batch-create-two-datasources-and-how-to-customized-to-use-other-propert? — PAA, Jun 22 '20 at 09:29
(haven't tried it yet, but) is it necessary to explicitly annotate the DataSourceConfiguration class with @Configuration ? — S3lvatico, Jul 25 '20 at 14:46

score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '14 at 15:40

I have my data sources in a separate configuration class. In the batch configuration, we extend DefaultBatchConfigurer and override the setDataSource method, passing in the specific database to use with Spring Batch with a @Qualifier. I was unable to get this to work using the constructor version, but the setter method worked for me.

My Reader, Processor, and Writer's are in their own self contained classes, along with the steps.

This is using Spring Boot 1.1.8 & Spring Batch 3.0.1. Note: We had a different setup for a project using Spring Boot 1.1.5 that did not work the same on the newer version.

package org.sample.config.jdbc;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Primary;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;

import com.atomikos.jdbc.AtomikosDataSourceBean;
import com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXADataSource;

/**
 * The Class DataSourceConfiguration.
 *
 */
@Configuration
public class DataSourceConfig {

    private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DataSourceConfig.class);

    @Autowired private Environment env;

    /**
     * Siphon data source.
     *
     * @return the data source
     */
    @Bean(name = "mainDataSource")
    @Primary
    public DataSource mainDataSource() {

        final String user = this.env.getProperty("db.main.username");
        final String password = this.env.getProperty("db.main.password");
        final String url = this.env.getProperty("db.main.url");

        return this.getMysqlXADataSource(url, user, password);
    }

    /**
     * Batch data source.
     *
     * @return the data source
     */
    @Bean(name = "batchDataSource", initMethod = "init", destroyMethod = "close")
    public DataSource batchDataSource() {

        final String user = this.env.getProperty("db.batch.username");
        final String password = this.env.getProperty("db.batch.password");
        final String url = this.env.getProperty("db.batch.url");

        return this.getAtomikosDataSource("metaDataSource", this.getMysqlXADataSource(url, user, password));
    }

    /**
     * Gets the mysql xa data source.
     *
     * @param url the url
     * @param user the user
     * @param password the password
     * @return the mysql xa data source
     */
    private MysqlXADataSource getMysqlXADataSource(final String url, final String user, final String password) {

        final MysqlXADataSource mysql = new MysqlXADataSource();
        mysql.setUser(user);
        mysql.setPassword(password);
        mysql.setUrl(url);
        mysql.setPinGlobalTxToPhysicalConnection(true);

        return mysql;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the atomikos data source.
     *
     * @param resourceName the resource name
     * @param xaDataSource the xa data source
     * @return the atomikos data source
     */
    private AtomikosDataSourceBean getAtomikosDataSource(final String resourceName, final MysqlXADataSource xaDataSource) {

        final AtomikosDataSourceBean atomikos = new AtomikosDataSourceBean();
        atomikos.setUniqueResourceName(resourceName);
        atomikos.setXaDataSource(xaDataSource);
        atomikos.setMaxLifetime(3600);
        atomikos.setMinPoolSize(2);
        atomikos.setMaxPoolSize(10);

        return atomikos;
    }

}


package org.sample.settlement.batch;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.batch.core.Job;
import org.springframework.batch.core.Step;
import org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.annotation.DefaultBatchConfigurer;
import org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.annotation.EnableBatchProcessing;
import org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.annotation.JobBuilderFactory;
import org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.annotation.StepBuilderFactory;
import org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.RunIdIncrementer;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;

/**
 * The Class BatchConfiguration.
 *
 */
@Configuration
@EnableBatchProcessing
public class BatchConfiguration extends DefaultBatchConfigurer {
    private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(BatchConfiguration.class);
    @Autowired private JobBuilderFactory jobs;
    @Autowired private StepBuilderFactory steps;
    @Autowired private PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager;
    @Autowired @Qualifier("processStep") private Step processStep;

    /**
     * Process payments job.
     *
     * @return the job
     */
    @Bean(name = "processJob")
    public Job processJob() {
        return this.jobs.get("processJob")
                    .incrementer(new RunIdIncrementer())
                    .start(processStep)
                    .build();
    }

    @Override
    @Autowired
    public void setDataSource(@Qualifier("batchDataSource") DataSource batchDataSource) {
        super.setDataSource(batchDataSource);
    }
}

Overriding the DefaultBatchConfigurer setDataSource method is what I needed. — Cameron Chapman, May 06 '16 at 20:57
I tried that but the the batch tables are created in the primary database, and then when the batch is actually working, it searches those tables in the batch db and could not find it and fails. If I create the tables on the batch db and then configure it to not create the tables on the second run, it works fine! — Rajan, Sep 14 '17 at 12:25
Spring Batch 4.1.1 - DefaultBatchConfigurer does not have a setDataSource() method — pojo-guy, Apr 10 '19 at 17:06
Overriding DefaultBatchConfigurer.setDataSource is really help. Thanks dude! — Tung Nguyen, Oct 17 '19 at 05:00
Could you please guide me here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62510899/spring-batch-create-two-datasources-and-how-to-customized-to-use-other-propert? — PAA, Jun 22 '20 at 09:29

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 06 '18 at 18:56

Per https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-two-datasources:

@Bean
@Primary
@ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.first")
public DataSourceProperties firstDataSourceProperties() {
    return new DataSourceProperties();
}

@Bean
@Primary
@ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.first")
public DataSource firstDataSource() {
    return firstDataSourceProperties().initializeDataSourceBuilder().build();
}

@Bean
@ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.second")
public DataSourceProperties secondDataSourceProperties() {
    return new DataSourceProperties();
}

@Bean
@ConfigurationProperties("app.datasource.second")
public DataSource secondDataSource() {
    return secondDataSourceProperties().initializeDataSourceBuilder().build();
}

In the application properties, you can use regular datasource properties:

app.datasource.first.type=com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource
app.datasource.first.maximum-pool-size=30

app.datasource.second.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/test
app.datasource.second.username=dbuser
app.datasource.second.password=dbpass
app.datasource.second.max-total=30

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 20 '19 at 09:43

As suggested by Frozen in his answer two DataSources did the trick for me. Additionally I needed to define a BatchDataSourceInitializer to properly initialize the batch DataSource as suggested in Michael Minella's answer to this related question.

DataSource configuration

@Configuration
public class DataSourceConfiguration {

    @Bean
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties("domain.datasource")
    public DataSource domainDataSource() {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }

    @Bean("batchDataSource")
    @ConfigurationProperties("batch.datasource")
    public DataSource batchDataSource() {
        return DataSourceBuilder.create().build();
    }
}

Batch Configuration

@Configuration
@EnableBatchProcessing
public class BatchConfiguration extends DefaultBatchConfigurer {

    @Override
    @Autowired
    public void setDataSource(@Qualifier("batchDataSource") DataSource batchDataSource) {
        super.setDataSource(batchDataSource);
    }

    @Bean
    public BatchDataSourceInitializer batchDataSourceInitializer(@Qualifier("batchDataSource") DataSource batchDataSource,
            ResourceLoader resourceLoader) {
        return new BatchDataSourceInitializer(batchDataSource, resourceLoader, new BatchProperties());
    }

application.properties:

# Sample configuraion using a H2 in-memory DB
domain.datasource.jdbcUrl=jdbc:h2:mem:domain-ds;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
domain.datasource.username=sa
domain.datasource.password=
domain.datasource.driver=org.h2.Driver

batch.datasource.jdbcUrl=jdbc:h2:mem:batch-ds;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
batch.datasource.username=sa
batch.datasource.password=
batch.datasource.driver=org.h2.Driver

sakya · Answer 5 · 2020-05-13T06:50:45.583

Add @BatchDataSource to the batch data source if your spring boot's version is 2.2.0 or later.

Details of this annotation is as follows:

/**
 * Qualifier annotation for a DataSource to be injected into Batch auto-configuration. Can
 * be used on a secondary data source, if there is another one marked as
 * {@link Primary @Primary}.
 *
 * @author Dmytro Nosan
 * @since 2.2.0
 */
@Target({ ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Qualifier
public @interface BatchDataSource {

}

for example:

@BatchDataSource
@Bean("batchDataSource")
public DataSource batchDataSource(@Qualifier("batchDataSourceProperties") DataSourceProperties dataSourceProperties) {
        return dataSourceProperties
                .initializeDataSourceBuilder()
                .type(HikariDataSource.class)
                .build();
}

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 12 '14 at 13:45

Have you tried something like this already?

@Bean(name="batchDataSource")
public DataSource batchDataSource(){          
       return DataSourceBuilder.create()
                .url(env.getProperty("batchdb.url"))
                .driverClassName(env.getProperty("batchdb.driver"))
                .username(env.getProperty("batchdb.username"))
                .password(env.getProperty("batchdb.password"))
                .build();          
}

and then mark the other datasource with a @Primary, and use an @Qualifier in your batch config to specify that you want to auotwire the batchDataSource bean.

Could you please guide me here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62510899/spring-batch-create-two-datasources-and-how-to-customized-to-use-other-propert? — PAA, Jun 22 '20 at 09:29

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 12 '17 at 09:59

Assuming you have 2 data sources, one for spring batch metadata such as job details[lets say CONFIGDB] and other for your business data [lets say AppDB]:

Inject CONFIGDB into jobRepository, like this:

 <bean id="jobRepository"
    class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.JobRepositoryFactoryBean">
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
    <property name="dataSource" ref="CONFIGDB" />
    <property name="databaseType" value="db2" />
    <property name="tablePrefix" value="CONFIGDB.BATCH_" />
  </bean>

Now you can inject the AppDB dartasource into your DAO's OR Writers if any like..

   <bean id="DemoItemWriter" class="com.demoItemWriter">
     <property name="dataSource" ref="AppDB" />     
   </bean>

OR

you can do define a resource and Inject this AppDB with jndi lookup in the class where its needed like:

public class ExampleDAO {

@Resource(lookup = "java:comp/env/jdbc/AppDB")
DataSource ds;

}

How to java-configure separate datasources for spring batch data and business data? Should I even do it?

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DataSource configuration

Batch Configuration

application.properties:

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