Final Exam: Spring Data

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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  apply Spring's RowMapper to operate on each row of a query execution's results and generate a Java object
  

  apply the @Query annotation to map queries to be run against a database to a method in a CrudRepository
  

  call various CrudRepository methods that are implemented by default by the Spring framework
  

  configure a batch process to transform XML input into CSV
  

  configure a CrudRepository that enables basic CRUD operations on data
  

  configure database tables and their corresponding entities in a Spring application to represent a many-to-many relationship
  

  create a batch process to read data from a JSON file and load it into a relational database table
  

  create a project that uses Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, and a relational database
  

  define an entity class that maps to a relational database table
  

  define an ItemReader component to read data from a CSV file and create Java objects for each row in the input file
  

  define custom queries that bind to parameters passed to a CrudRepository method
  

  define custom queries that can be referenced by names in a CrudRepository
  

  define database tables and their corresponding entities in a Spring application to represent a many-to-one relationship
  

  develop a customized FieldSetMapper to load CSV data into Java objects
  

  enable logging in your Spring application to view the translation of CrudRepository methods into SQL queries
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  execute a Spring Batch process and identify the role played by various components in the application
  

  identify the features of Spring, Spring Data, and Spring Data JDBC that can be used to implement database operations from a Java application
  

  instantiate and persist objects that have a many-to-many relationship with one another
  

  load entity data from Java objects to a database table from a Spring Boot app
  

  read data from a database and write its contents into a JSON file
  

  recognize the features offered by Spring Batch to make batch processing easier and more robust
  

  retrieve and read entities from a database table using a CrudRepository's findBy methods
  

  search for entities based on patterns in a string property
  

  search for entities based on ranges of values in numeric and date fields
  

  set some of the core components of a Spring Batch application, such as a data source and transaction manager
  

  set up a class that represents an entity to be persisted into a database table using Spring Data JPA
  

  set up derived query methods that search for entities based on the values of multiple properties
  

  set up update and delete operations in a CrudRepository
  

  use a JdbcTemplate instance to connect to a database and run a query
  

  use Spring Boot and Spring Initializr to set up a project that adopts Spring Data JPA