Book Club Saturdays

The Metropolitan Public Library hosts "Book Club Saturdays," a wildly popular event where 30-40 members arrive at 10 AM to check out their monthly selections. The current system processes each loan individually with auto-commit enabled, creating two critical problems:

Data inconsistency: Last month, the system crashed while processing a member's four-book checkout. Two books were recorded as loaned, but the other two weren't, causing inventory discrepancies and frustrated patrons.
Performance bottleneck: Processing each loan as a separate database transaction takes 15-20 minutes, creating long queues and unhappy library staff.

Your mission is to implement batch processing with transaction control.

This exercise is part of the course

Querying a PostgreSQL Database in Java

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Exercise instructions

Set autoCommit to false to enable manual transaction control in line 32.
Add multiple loans to the batch in line 43.
Commit the transaction if all operations are successful in line 49.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

public class BatchLoanProcessor {
    private static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/library_db";
    private static final String USERNAME = "postgres";
    private static final String PASSWORD = "postgres";
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Object[][] loanData = {
            {1, 1, LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now().plusDays(14), "borrowed"},
            {2, 2, LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now().plusDays(14), "borrowed"},
            {3, 3, LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now().plusDays(7), "borrowed"},
            {4, 1, LocalDate.now(), LocalDate.now().plusDays(14), "borrowed"}
        };
        
        try {
            boolean success = processBatchLoans(loanData);
            if (success) {
                System.out.println("All loans were processed successfully.");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Loan processing failed. Transaction was rolled back.");
            }
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            System.err.println("Database error: " + e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    
    public static boolean processBatchLoans(Object[][] loanData) throws SQLException {
        String insertSQL = "INSERT INTO loans (book_id, member_id, loan_date, due_date, status) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)";
        
        try (Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, USERNAME, PASSWORD)) {
            // Set autoCommit to false
            conn.____(____);
            
            try (PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement(insertSQL)) {
                for (Object[] loan : loanData) {
                    pstmt.setInt(1, (Integer) loan[0]);  
                    pstmt.setInt(2, (Integer) loan[1]);  
                    pstmt.setDate(3, java.sql.Date.valueOf((LocalDate) loan[2]));  
                    pstmt.setDate(4, java.sql.Date.valueOf((LocalDate) loan[3]));  
                    pstmt.setString(5, (String) loan[4]);  
                    
                    // Add to batch
                    pstmt.____();
                }
                
                int[] results = pstmt.executeBatch();
                                
                // Commit the transaction if all operations are successful
                conn.____();
                
                return true;
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                conn.rollback();
                
                System.err.println("Error during batch processing: " + e.getMessage());
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
}

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