Are there any good CachedRowSet implementations other than the proprietary Sun one?

Question

I am investigating using javax.sql.rowset.CachedRowSet in part of my application, however I can only find information on using the proprietary sun implementation com.sun.rowset.CachedRowSetImpl or Oracle specific implementations.

The sun implementation is unsupported and subject to change. Using this could also cause problems if I want to deploy to non-Sun virtual machines in the future, and finally it leaves unsuppressible warnings in our build logs which can mask other warnings.

Is there an open source alternative implementation that we I can deploy with my application that will work well across multiple databases? At a minimum something that supports MySQL.

Answer 1

You shouldn't be directly instantiating implementation of CachedRowSet -- use its Provider to obtain an instance: see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/sql/rowset/RowSetProvider.html (available since JDK7)

In fact, CachedRowSet's interface and related factory are standard/portable.

Something like the following shoud do the trick:

CachedRowSet crs = RowSetProvider.newFactory().createCachedRowSet();
crs.populate(myResultSet);

Answer 2

Here is my improved implementation of CachedRowSetImpl to support MySQL 5.x names and labels. Based on the implementation of this guy Re: Regression from 2.1.6

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.sql.Array;
import java.sql.Blob;
import java.sql.Clob;
import java.sql.Ref;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Hashtable;

import javax.sql.rowset.RowSetMetaDataImpl;

import com.sun.rowset.CachedRowSetImpl;

public class FixedCachedRowSetImplMySql extends CachedRowSetImpl {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -9067504047398250113L;
    private RowSetMetaDataImpl RowSetMD;

    public FixedCachedRowSetImpl() throws SQLException {
        super();
    }

    public FixedCachedRowSetImpl(Hashtable env) throws SQLException {
        super(env);
    }

    private int getColIdxByName(String name) throws SQLException {
        RowSetMD = (RowSetMetaDataImpl) this.getMetaData();
        int cols = RowSetMD.getColumnCount();
        
        for (int i = 1; i <= cols; ++i) {
            String colLabel = RowSetMD.getColumnLabel(i);
            String colName  = RowSetMD.getColumnName(i);
            if (colName != null) if (name.equalsIgnoreCase(colName) || name.equalsIgnoreCase(RowSetMD.getTableName(i) + "." + colName)) {               
                return (i);
            }
            else if (colLabel != null) if (name.equalsIgnoreCase(colLabel)) {
                return (i);
            }
            else
                continue;
        }
        throw new SQLException(resBundle.handleGetObject("cachedrowsetimpl.invalcolnm").toString());
    }

    @Override
    public Collection<?> toCollection(String column) throws SQLException {
        return toCollection(getColIdxByName(column));
    }

    @Override
    public String getString(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getString(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public boolean getBoolean(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getBoolean(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public byte getByte(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getByte(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public short getShort(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getShort(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public int getInt(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getInt(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public long getLong(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getLong(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public float getFloat(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getFloat(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public double getDouble(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getDouble(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(String columnName, int scale) throws SQLException {
        return getBigDecimal(getColIdxByName(columnName), scale);
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] getBytes(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getBytes(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public java.sql.Date getDate(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getDate(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public java.sql.Time getTime(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getTime(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public java.sql.Timestamp getTimestamp(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getTimestamp(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public java.io.InputStream getAsciiStream(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getAsciiStream(getColIdxByName(columnName));

    }

    @Override
    public java.io.InputStream getUnicodeStream(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getUnicodeStream(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public java.io.InputStream getBinaryStream(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getBinaryStream(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public Object getObject(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getObject(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public int findColumn(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getColIdxByName(columnName);
    }

    @Override
    public java.io.Reader getCharacterStream(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getCharacterStream(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal getBigDecimal(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getBigDecimal(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public boolean columnUpdated(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return columnUpdated(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public void updateNull(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        updateNull(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }

    @Override
    public void updateBoolean(String columnName, boolean x) throws SQLException {
        updateBoolean(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateByte(String columnName, byte x) throws SQLException {
        updateByte(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateShort(String columnName, short x) throws SQLException {
        updateShort(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateInt(String columnName, int x) throws SQLException {
        updateInt(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateLong(String columnName, long x) throws SQLException {
        updateLong(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateFloat(String columnName, float x) throws SQLException {
        updateFloat(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDouble(String columnName, double x) throws SQLException {
        updateDouble(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateBigDecimal(String columnName, BigDecimal x) throws SQLException {
        updateBigDecimal(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateString(String columnName, String x) throws SQLException {
        updateString(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateBytes(String columnName, byte x[]) throws SQLException {
        updateBytes(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateDate(String columnName, java.sql.Date x) throws SQLException {
        updateDate(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateTime(String columnName, java.sql.Time x) throws SQLException {
        updateTime(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateTimestamp(String columnName, java.sql.Timestamp x) throws SQLException {
        updateTimestamp(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateAsciiStream(String columnName, java.io.InputStream x, int length) throws SQLException {
        updateAsciiStream(getColIdxByName(columnName), x, length);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateBinaryStream(String columnName, java.io.InputStream x, int length) throws SQLException {
        updateBinaryStream(getColIdxByName(columnName), x, length);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateCharacterStream(String columnName, java.io.Reader reader, int length) throws SQLException {
        updateCharacterStream(getColIdxByName(columnName), reader, length);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateObject(String columnName, Object x, int scale) throws SQLException {
        updateObject(getColIdxByName(columnName), x, scale);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateObject(String columnName, Object x) throws SQLException {
        updateObject(getColIdxByName(columnName), x);
    }

    @Override
    public Object getObject(String columnName, java.util.Map<String, Class<?>> map) throws SQLException {
        return getObject(getColIdxByName(columnName), map);
    }

    @Override
    public Ref getRef(String colName) throws SQLException {
        return getRef(getColIdxByName(colName));
    }

    @Override
    public Blob getBlob(String colName) throws SQLException {
        return getBlob(getColIdxByName(colName));
    }

    @Override
    public Clob getClob(String colName) throws SQLException {
        return getClob(getColIdxByName(colName));
    }

    @Override
    public Array getArray(String colName) throws SQLException {
        return getArray(getColIdxByName(colName));
    }

    @Override
    public java.sql.Date getDate(String columnName, Calendar cal) throws SQLException {
        return getDate(getColIdxByName(columnName), cal);
    }

    @Override
    public java.sql.Time getTime(String columnName, Calendar cal) throws SQLException {
        return getTime(getColIdxByName(columnName), cal);
    }

    @Override
    public java.sql.Timestamp getTimestamp(String columnName, Calendar cal) throws SQLException {
        return getTimestamp(getColIdxByName(columnName), cal);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateRef(String columnName, java.sql.Ref ref) throws SQLException {
        updateRef(getColIdxByName(columnName), ref);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateClob(String columnName, Clob c) throws SQLException {
        updateClob(getColIdxByName(columnName), c);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateBlob(String columnName, Blob b) throws SQLException {
        updateBlob(getColIdxByName(columnName), b);
    }

    @Override
    public void updateArray(String columnName, Array a) throws SQLException {
        updateArray(getColIdxByName(columnName), a);
    }

    @Override
    public java.net.URL getURL(String columnName) throws SQLException {
        return getURL(getColIdxByName(columnName));
    }
}

Answer 3

Oracle Implementation Is Open-Source

The question incorrectly states that the Oracle RowSet implementation is proprietary. It is not; it already is open-source.

The source code is released as free software under the GNU General Public Library (GPL) version 2 license with "Classpath" exception. Read the source code to see the license.

So they cannot be withdrawn. You and others are free to maintain or modify these classes provided you follow the terms of the GPL.

JDBC Driver Implementation

Also, some JDBC drivers provide an implementation of RowSet. I do not know if any are open-source, but that would be one avenue to explore.