Simple in-memory storage wich is persistent and transactional.

This project is an addition on top of prevayler to make it easier to work with prevayler. In prevayler you have to encapsulate every change on your model in a command object and then the command object will be persisted to disk. With Simple-persistence you can use a Dao model and stop worrying about command objects.

At the back-end prevayler is still used. Prevayler is a way to persist your object model without the need for a database. All objects live in memory, any change is persisted to a transaction log. After a crash or restart this transaction log is read from disk to restore the model in memory.

To get started:

Getting-started

More technical info:

Technical-overview

You can find the prevayler project here:

Prevayler

Minimal example (gist):

package nl.astraeus.persistence.example;

import nl.astraeus.persistence.PersistentManager;
import nl.astraeus.persistence.SimplePersistent;
import nl.astraeus.persistence.SimplePersistentDao;
import nl.astraeus.persistence.Transaction;

/**
 * User: rnentjes
 * Date: 12/16/12
 * Time: 12:45 PM
 */
public class MinimalExample {

    public static class User extends SimplePersistent {
        private final static long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        private String name;
        private String title;

        public User(String name, String title) {
            this.name = name;
            this.title = title;
        }

        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }

        public String getTitle() {
            return title;
        }
    }

    public static class UserDao extends SimplePersistentDao<User> {
        public User findUserByName(String name) {
            return createQuery().where("name", name).getSingleResult();
        }
    }

    public MinimalExample() {
        System.setProperty(PersistentManager.DATA_DIRECTORY, "minimalexample");

        createUser();
        showUsers();
        findUser("User-1");
    }

    public void createUser() {
        new Transaction() {

            @Override
            public void execute() {
                UserDao dao = new UserDao();

                User user = new User("User-" + (dao.size() + 1), "More data here");

                dao.store(user);
            }
        };
    }

    public void showUsers() {
        UserDao dao = new UserDao();

        for (User user : dao.findAll()) {
            System.out.println("User :" + user.getName() + ", " + user.getTitle());
        }
    }

    public void findUser(String name) {
        UserDao dao = new UserDao();

        User user = dao.findUserByName(name);

        System.out.println("Found user :" + user.getName() + ", " + user.getTitle());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new MinimalExample();
    }
}