Question

I have a single thread trying to connect to a database using JDBCTemplate as follows:

JDBCTemplate jdbcTemplate =  new JdbcTemplate(dataSource); 

try{
    jdbcTemplate.execute(new CallableStatementCreator() {
        @Override
        public CallableStatement createCallableStatement(Connection con)
        throws SQLException {
            return con.prepareCall(query);
        }
    }, new CallableStatementCallback() {
        @Override
        public Object doInCallableStatement(CallableStatement cs)
        throws SQLException {
            cs.setString(1, subscriberID);
            cs.execute();
            return null;
        }
    });
 } catch (DataAccessException dae) {
     throw new CougarFrameworkException(
             "Problem removing subscriber from events queue: "
             + subscriberID, dae);
 }

I want to make sure that if the above code throws DataAccessException or SQLException, the thread waits a few seconds and tries to re-connect, say 5 more times and then gives up. How can I achieve this? Also, if during execution the database goes down and comes up again, how can i ensure that my program recovers from this and continues running instead of throwing an exception and exiting?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this. My considerations are : run a loop until the statements executed successfully. If there is a failure, tolerate the failure for 5 times and each time it will wait for 2 seconds for the next execution.

JDBCTemplate jdbcTemplate =  new JdbcTemplate(dataSource); 
boolean successfullyExecuted = false;
int failCount = 0;
while (!successfullyExecuted){
 try{
    jdbcTemplate.execute(new CallableStatementCreator() {
        @Override
        public CallableStatement createCallableStatement(Connection con)
        throws SQLException {
            return con.prepareCall(query);
        }
    }, new CallableStatementCallback() {
        @Override
        public Object doInCallableStatement(CallableStatement cs)
        throws SQLException {
            cs.setString(1, subscriberID);
            cs.execute();
            return null;
        }
    });
    successfullyExecuted = true;
 } catch (DataAccessException dae) {
     if (failedCount < 5){
        failedCount ++;
        try{java.lang.Thread.sleep(2 * 1000L); // Wait for 2 seconds
        }catch(java.lang.Exception e){}
     }else{
     throw new CougarFrameworkException(
             "Problem removing subscriber from events queue: "
             + subscriberID, dae);
     }
 } catch (java.sql.SQLException sqle){
     if (failedCount < 5){
        failedCount ++;
     }else{
     try{java.lang.Thread.sleep(2 * 1000L); // Wait for 2 seconds
     }catch(java.lang.Exception e){}
     throw new CougarFrameworkException(
             "Problem removing subscriber from events queue: "
             + subscriberID, dae);
     }
 }
}