Using Spring Batch to write to a Cassandra Database - spring-batch

Question

As of now, I'm able to connect to Cassandra via the following code:
import com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster;
import com.datastax.driver.core.Session;
public static Session connection() {
Cluster cluster = Cluster.builder()
.addContactPoints("IP1", "IP2")
.withCredentials("user", "password")
.withSSL()
.build();
Session session = null;
try {
session = cluster.connect("database_name");
session.execute("CQL Statement");
} finally {
IOUtils.closeQuietly(session);
IOUtils.closeQuietly(cluster);
}
return session;
}
The problem is that I need to write to Cassandra in a Spring Batch project. Most of the starter kits seem to use a JdbcBatchItemWriter to write to a mySQL database from a chunk. Is this possible? It seems that a JdbcBatchItemWriter cannot connect to a Cassandra database.
The current itemwriter code is below:
#Bean
public JdbcBatchItemWriter<Person> writer() {
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;
}

Answer 1

Spring Data Cassandra provides repository abstractions for Cassandra that you should be able to use in conjunction with the RepositoryItemWriter to write to Cassandra from Spring Batch.

Answer 2

It is possible to extend Spring Batch to support Cassandra by customising ItemReader and ItemWriter.
ItemWriter example:
public class CassandraBatchItemWriter<Company> implements ItemWriter<Company>, InitializingBean {
protected static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(CassandraBatchItemWriter.class);
private final Class<Company> aClass;
#Autowired
private CassandraTemplate cassandraTemplate;
#Override
public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception { }
public CassandraBatchItemWriter(final Class<Company> aClass) {
this.aClass = aClass;
}
#Override
public void write(final List<? extends Company> items) throws Exception {
logger.debug("Write operations is performing, the size is {}" + items.size());
if (!items.isEmpty()) {
logger.info("Deleting in a batch performing...");
cassandraTemplate.deleteAll(aClass);
logger.info("Inserting in a batch performing...");
cassandraTemplate.insert(items);
}
logger.debug("Items is null...");
}
}
Then you can inject it as a #Bean through #Configuration
#Bean
public ItemWriter<Company> writer(final DataSource dataSource) {
final CassandraBatchItemWriter<Company> writer = new CassandraBatchItemWriter<Company>(Company.class);
return writer;
}
Full source code can be found in Github repo: Spring-Batch-with-Cassandra