Hi Michael,
Cayenne was initially designed to run in a multi-stack scenario like
yours, so it is a good fit. Still since the scenario is not that
common, there is no prepackaged recipe. But you are on the right
track. See my comment below...
So, here are my questions:
1. How do I use the Cayenne API to dynamically tie into the DBCP
connection pool?
http://cayenne.apache.org/doc30/dbcpdatasourcefactory.html
The above gives you a DBCP connection pool in your "template" domain.
To share it between multiple domains, you need to reuse the DataSource
attached to the DataNode of the template domain. So in your example
you'd replace
DataSource dataSource = new PoolManager(...);
with
DataSource dataSource = templateDomain.getNode("XYZ").getDataSource();
But that also means that you will need to clone the DataMap and reset
the schema for all DbEntities to "cayenne_" + userName, instead of
reusing them per your example below. (I actually suggest instead of
cloning, re-loading DataMap from XML using MapLoader, which will be
more reliable).
2. Once I've done that, how do I dynamically switch schemas on a per
HttpRequest basis?
Many ways to do that. E.g. via a servlet filter.
void doFilter(..) {
String userName = // get it from request somehow
Configuration c = Configuration.getSharedConfiguration();
DataDomain domain = c.getDomain(userName);
if(domain == null) {
// init on demand
}
BaseContext.bindThreadObjectContext(domain.createDataContext());
}
Later in your webapp code executed within request:
ObjectContext context = BaseContext .getThreadObjectContext();
3. Will the solution work with multiple concurrent users each
accessing their own database?
Absolutely. The only code that may require some attention to thread
safety is "// init on demand" line above.
4. Is Cayenne able to solve the memory consumption problem I'm
having with Hibernate? I.E., will Cayenne add little to no
additional dedicated memory resources for every new DataDomain I
create if I'm using a common database structure for each new database?
Extra Cayenne-related memory consumption per user will be roughly
equal to the DataMap size. I suggest you put an upper cap on that,
e.g. by storing user stacks not in shared Configuration, but rather in
your own LRUMap, that will automatically kick out the stacks for
inactive users. Another thing you may do is to reduce the cache size
for each domain, by doing this:
domain.getProperties().put("cayenne.DataRowStore.snapshot.size", "200");
This will give you a fixed max memory profile.
Hope this helps.
Andrus
On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Michael Martineau wrote:
Hello,
I'm evaluating to see if Cayenne would be a good replacement for
Hibernate in my current project. I'm creating a website using
tomcat where users register on the main website (e.g.
www.mydomain.com). When they register, they select their own sub-
domain name for a private database (e.g. myprivatedb.mydomain.com).
The web app then creates a new database instance for them using a
common schema. Thus, each database has the exact same structure.
When each user goes to their own sub-domain and signs in, they are
connecting to their private database (I use the sub-domain as a key
to determine which database to use). However, even though each user
is accessing their own database, all users are sharing the same JVM
tomcat instance. Furthermore, all databases are hosted by the same
Mysql server instance.
After combing through the this email list I've been able to piece
together a simple example of using the Modeler to create a base
DataDomain/DataMap. Then using the Cayenne API, I've managed to
demonstrate to myself the ability to dynamically add new DataDomains
that use the DataMap template created using the Modeler (see code
below). However, in my example, not only am I creating new
DataDomains, I'm also creating a new connection pool for each
DataDomain which is not really what I want. I would like to use the
commons-dbcp pool and have all users share the same pool of
connections to the database server, even though they access
different schemas (mysql databases).
I've managed to make this work in Hibernate by implementing their
ConnectionProvider interface. Each new database configuration
(SessionFactory) in Hibernate creates a ConnectionProvider which
allowed me to change the "default" schema on the connection (that I
get from the DBCP pool) just before handing it to Hibernate based on
the website sub-domain. The problem is that Hibernate must create a
new SessionFactory for every database schema. Unfortunately, this
"SessionFactory" takes up a fixed amount of memory (5MB in my case)
on the server for each new database regardless of whether the user
who created the private database is signed in and using the website
or not. What I need is something (Cayenne?) that will take
advantage of the fact that every database is structurally identical
and share the "DataMap" resources.
So, here are my questions:
1. How do I use the Cayenne API to dynamically tie into the DBCP
connection pool?
2. Once I've done that, how do I dynamically switch schemas on a per
HttpRequest basis?
3. Will the solution work with multiple concurrent users each
accessing their own database?
In this message:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.cayenne.user/10428/match=datasource
Andrus suggests a solution that I'm not sure will work in my case
where every http request will require a schema change. Has a
solution been added to the API since this post?
4. Is Cayenne able to solve the memory consumption problem I'm
having with Hibernate? I.E., will Cayenne add little to no
additional dedicated memory resources for every new DataDomain I
create if I'm using a common database structure for each new database?
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Michael Martineau
Below is the test code I pieced together from several email posts:
public class Main2
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException
{
Main2 main = new Main2();
main.createNewDataDomain("db0");
main.addUser("db0", "Michael");
main.createNewDataDomain("db1");
main.addUser("db1", "Rebekah");
main.createNewDataDomain("db2");
main.addUser("db2", "Andrew");
main.createNewDataDomain("db3");
main.addUser("db3", "Rachael");
}
private void createNewDataDomain(String name) throws SQLException
{
DataDomain templateDomain =
Configuration.getSharedConfiguration().getDomain("Cayenne_DBX");
DataSource dataSource = new
PoolManager("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", "jdbc:mysql://localhost/
cayenne_" + name, 1, 5, "cayenne", "cayenne");
DataNode dataNode = new DataNode("DynamicNode" + name);
dataNode.setAdapter(new AutoAdapter(dataSource));
dataNode.setDataSource(dataSource);
dataNode
.addDataMap
(templateDomain.getEntityResolver().getDataMap("Cayenne_DBXMap"));
DataDomain domainX = new DataDomain(name);
domainX.setEntityResolver(templateDomain.getEntityResolver());
domainX.addNode(dataNode);
Configuration c = Configuration.getSharedConfiguration();
c.addDomain(domainX);
}
private void addUser(String domain, String username)
{
ObjectContext context = DataContext.createDataContext(domain);
User user = context.newObject(User.class);
user.setName(username);
context.commitChanges();
SelectQuery select1 = new SelectQuery(User.class);
List<User> users = (List<User>)context.performQuery(select1);
for(User u : users)
{
System.out.println(u.getName());
}
}
}
