update on duplicate key with JdbcBatchItemWriter

Question

spring Batch for my project, and I'm simply trying to read from a csv file and load data to a database, using JdbcBatchItemWriter as writer.

I'm looking for a way to tell the writer to insert a new row, but, on duplicate key (or duplicate unique identifier) update row instead of failing.

I know I can do that directly in the sql statement, but that would be specific to Mysql, though I want my code to be DBMS-independent.

here is my writer declaration in the java config

@Bean
@StepScope
public ItemWriter<Person> writerHeadingCollectionsToDb(DataSource datasource) {

    String sqlStatement = "INSERT INTO abcd(id, first_name, last_name, phone_number"
            + "VALUES (:id, :firstName, :lastName, :phoneNumber)";


    JdbcBatchItemWriter<Person> itemWriter = new JdbcBatchItemWriter<Person>();
    itemWriter.setSql(sqlStatement );
    itemWriter.setDataSource(dataSource);
    itemWriter.setItemSqlParameterSourceProvider(new BeanPropertyItemSqlParameterSourceProvider<Person>());
    return itemWriter;
}

Thanks in advance for your help

Answer 1

It's pretty easy:
Write a custom ItemWriter<> and in write() method do an insert and - if duplication - do an update; to check if dup key use a lookup or a duplicate exception catch.