The Oracle R2DBC Driver is a Java library that supports reactive programming with Oracle Database.
Oracle R2DBC implements the R2DBC Service Provider Interface (SPI) as specified by the Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) project. The R2DBC SPI exposes Reactive Streams as an abstraction for remote database operations. Reactive Streams is a well defined standard for asynchronous, non-blocking, and back-pressured communication. This standard allows an R2DBC driver to interoperate with other reactive libraries and frameworks, such as Spring, Project Reactor, RxJava, and Akka Streams.
R2DBC Specification v1.0.0.RELEASE
Reactive Streams Project Home Page
Reactive Streams Javadocs v1.0.3
Reactive Streams Specification v1.0.3
The 1.0.0 release Oracle R2DBC implements version 1.0.0.RELEASE of the R2DBC SPI.
Changes in this release:
- Added support for long valued update counts
- New OracleR2dbcOptions constants for V$SESSION tracing
Oracle R2DBC can interoperate with other libraries that support the 1.0.0.RELEASE version of the R2DBC SPI. When using libraries like Spring and r2dbc-pool, be sure to use a version which supports the 1.0.0.RELEASE of the SPI.
Oracle R2DBC depends on the JDK 11 build of Oracle JDBC 21.5.0.0. Other libraries may depend on a different version of Oracle JDBC which is incompatible. To resolve this incompatibility, it may be necessary to explicitly declare the dependency in your project, ie:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle.database.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc11</artifactId>
<version>21.5.0.0</version>
</dependency>
Oracle R2DBC can be obtained from Maven Central.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle.database.r2dbc</groupId>
<artifactId>oracle-r2dbc</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
Oracle R2DBC can also be built from source using Maven:
mvn clean install -DskipTests=true
If -DskipTests=true is omitted from the command above, then it will execute end-to-end tests which connect to an Oracle Database. Tests read the connection configuration from src/test/resources/config.properties.
Oracle R2DBC is compatible with JDK 11 (or newer), and has the following runtime dependencies:
- R2DBC SPI 1.0.0.RELEASE
- Reactive Streams 1.0.3
- Project Reactor 3.4.18
- Oracle JDBC 21.5.0.0 for JDK 11 (ojdbc11.jar)
- Oracle R2DBC relies on the Oracle JDBC Driver's Reactive Extensions APIs.
The Oracle R2DBC Driver has been verified with Oracle Database versions 18, 19, and 21.
The following method returns an Oracle R2DBC ConnectionFactory
static ConnectionFactory getConnectionFactory() {
String user = getUser();
char[] password = getPassword();
try {
return ConnectionFactories.get(
ConnectionFactoryOptions.builder()
.option(ConnectionFactoryOptions.DRIVER, "oracle")
.option(ConnectionFactoryOptions.HOST, "db.host.example.com")
.option(ConnectionFactoryOptions.PORT, 1521)
.option(ConnectionFactoryOptions.DATABASE, "db.service.name")
.option(ConnectionFactoryOptions.USER, user)
.option(ConnectionFactoryOptions.PASSWORD, CharBuffer.wrap(password))
.build());
}
finally {
Arrays.fill(password, (char)0);
}
}
The following method uses Project Reactor's Flux to open a connection, execute a SQL query, and then close the connection:
Flux.usingWhen(
getConnectionFactory().create(),
connection ->
Flux.from(connection.createStatement(
"SELECT 'Hello, Oracle' FROM sys.dual")
.execute())
.flatMap(result ->
result.map(row -> row.get(0, String.class))),
Connection::close)
.doOnNext(System.out::println)
.doOnError(Throwable::printStackTrace)
.subscribe();
When executed, the code above will asynchronously print the result of the SQL query.
The next example uses a named parameter marker, :locale_name
, in the SQL command:
Flux.usingWhen(
getConnectionFactory().create(),
connection ->
Flux.from(connection.createStatement(
"SELECT greeting FROM locale WHERE locale_name = :locale_name")
.bind("locale_name", "France")
.execute())
.flatMap(result ->
result.map(row ->
String.format("%s, Oracle", row.get("greeting", String.class)))),
Connection::close)
.doOnNext(System.out::println)
.doOnError(Throwable::printStackTrace)
.subscribe();
Like the previous example, executing the code above will asynchronously print
a greeting message. "France" is set as the bind value for locale_name
, so the
query should return a greeting like "Bonjour" when row.get("greeting")
is called.
Additional code examples can be found here.
For help programming with Oracle R2DBC, ask questions on Stack Overflow tagged with [oracle] and [r2dbc]. The development team monitors Stack Overflow regularly.
Issues may be opened as described in our contribution guide.
This project welcomes contributions from the community. Before submitting a pull request, please review our contribution guide.
Please consult the security guide for our responsible security vulnerability disclosure process.
Copyright (c) 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
This software is dual-licensed to you under the Universal Permissive License (UPL) 1.0 as shown at https://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl or Apache License 2.0 as shown at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. You may choose either license.
This document specifies the behavior of the R2DBC SPI as implemented for the Oracle Database. This SPI implementation is referred to as the "Oracle R2DBC Driver" or "Oracle R2DBC" throughout the remainder of this document.
The Oracle R2DBC Driver implements behavior specified by the R2DBC 1.0.0.RELEASE Specification and Javadoc
Publisher objects created by Oracle R2DBC implement behavior specified by the Reactive Streams 1.0.3 Specification and Javadoc
The R2DBC and Reactive Streams specifications include requirements that are optional for a compliant implementation. The remainder of this document specifies the Oracle R2DBC Driver's implementation of these optional requirements.
The Oracle R2DBC Driver is identified by the name "oracle". The driver
implements a ConnectionFactoryProvider located by an R2DBC URL identifing
"oracle" as a driver, or by a DRIVER ConnectionFactoryOption
with the value
of "oracle".
The following standard ConnectionFactoryOptions are supported by Oracle R2DBC:
DRIVER
HOST
PORT
DATABASE
USER
PASSWORD
SSL
CONNECT_TIMEOUT
STATEMENT_TIMEOUT
.
Oracle R2DBC interprets the
DATABASE
option as the service name of an Oracle Database instance. System Identifiers (SID) are not recognized.
Oracle R2DBC extends the standard set of R2DBC options to offer functionality that is specific to Oracle Database and the Oracle JDBC Driver. Extended options are declared in the OracleR2dbcOptions class.
The oracle.r2dbc.OracleR2dbcOptions.DESCRIPTOR
option may be used to configure
an Oracle Net Descriptor of the form (DESCRIPTION=...)
. If this option is
used to configure a descriptor, then it is invalid to specify any
other option that conflicts with information in the descriptor. Conflicting
options include HOST
, PORT
, DATABASE
, and SSL
. These options all
conflict with information that appears in a descriptor.
The DESCRIPTOR
option has the name oracle.r2dbc.descriptor
. This name can
be used to configure a descriptor in the query section of an R2DBC URL:
r2dbc:oracle://?oracle.r2dbc.descriptor=(DESCRIPTION=...)
The DESCRIPTOR
constant may also be used to configure a descriptor
programmatically:
ConnectionFactoryOptions.builder()
.option(OracleR2dbcOptions.DESCRIPTOR, "(DESCRIPTION=...)")
The DESCRIPTOR
option may be set to an aliased entry of a tnsnames.ora
file.
Use the TNS_ADMIN
option to specify the directory where tnsnames.ora
is
located:
r2dbc:oracle://?oracle.r2dbc.descriptor=myAlias&TNS_ADMIN=/path/to/tnsnames/
The oracle.r2dbc.OracleR2dbcOptions.EXECUTOR
option configures a
java.util.concurrent.Executor
for executing asynchronous callbacks. The
EXECUTOR
option may be used to configure an Executor
programmatically:
ConnectionFactoryOptions.builder()
.option(OracleR2dbcOptions.EXECUTOR, getExecutor())
There is no way to configure an executor with a URL query parameter
If this option is not configured, then the common
java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinPool
is used as a default.
A subset of Oracle JDBC's connection properties are also supported by Oracle
R2DBC. These connection properties may be configured as options having the same
name as the Oracle JDBC connection property, and may have CharSequence
value
types.
For example, the following URL configures the oracle.net.wallet_location
connection property:
r2dbcs:oracle://db.host.example.com:1522/db.service.name?oracle.net.wallet_location=/path/to/wallet/
The same property can also be configured programmatically:
ConnectionFactoryOptions.builder()
.option(OracleR2dbcOptions.TLS_WALLET_LOCATION, "/path/to/wallet")
The following is a list of all Oracle JDBC connection properties that are supported by Oracle R2DBC:
- oracle.net.tns_admin
- oracle.net.wallet_location
- oracle.net.wallet_password
- javax.net.ssl.keyStore
- javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword
- javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType
- javax.net.ssl.trustStore
- javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword
- javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType
- oracle.net.authentication_services
- oracle.net.ssl_certificate_alias
- oracle.net.ssl_server_dn_match
- oracle.net.ssl_server_cert_dn
- oracle.net.ssl_version
- oracle.net.ssl_cipher_suites
- ssl.keyManagerFactory.algorithm
- ssl.trustManagerFactory.algorithm
- oracle.net.ssl_context_protocol
- oracle.jdbc.fanEnabled
- oracle.jdbc.implicitStatementCacheSize
- oracle.jdbc.defaultLobPrefetchSize
- oracle.net.disableOob
- Out of band (OOB) breaks effect statement timeouts. Set this to "true" if statement timeouts are not working correctly.
- oracle.jdbc.enableQueryResultCache
- Cached query results can cause phantom reads even if the serializable transaction isolation level is set. Set this to "false" if using the serializable isolation level.
- v$session.terminal
- v$session.machine
- v$session.osuser
- v$session.program
- v$session.process
Oracle R2DBC's ConnectionFactory
and ConnectionFactoryProvider
are the only
classes that have a thread safe implementation. All other classes implemented
by Oracle R2DBC are not thread safe. For instance, it is not safe for multiple
threads to concurrently access a single instance of Result
.
It is recommended to use a Reactive Streams library such as Project Reactor or RxJava to manage the consumption of non-thread safe objects
Oracle Database does not allow multiple database calls to execute in parallel
over a single Connection
. If an attempt is made to execute a database call
before a previous call has completed, then Oracle R2DBC will enqueue that call
and only execute it after the previous call has completed.
To illustrate, the following code attempts to execute two statements in parallel:
Flux.merge(
connection.createStatement(
"INSERT INTO example (id, value) VALUES (0, 'x')")
.execute(),
connection.createStatement(
"INSERT INTO example (id, value) VALUES (1, 'y')")
.execute())
When the publisher of the second statement is subscribed to, Oracle R2DBC will enqueue a task for sending that statement to the database. The enqueued task will only be executed after the publisher of the first statement has completed.
Every method implemented by Oracle R2DBC that returns a Publisher has a JavaDoc which specifies the Publisher's behavior with regard to deferred execution and support for multiple Subscribers.
Oracle R2DBC's implementation of Publishers that emit one or zero items will typically defer execution until a Subscriber subscribes, support multiple Subscribers, and cache the result of a database call (the same result of the same call is emitted to each Subscriber).
Oracle R2DBC's implementation of Publishers that emit multiple items will typically defer execution until a Subscriber signals demand, and not support multiple subscribers.
Oracle R2DBC creates R2dbcExceptions having the same ORA-XXXXX error codes used by Oracle Database and Oracle JDBC.
A reference for the ORA-XXXXX error codes can be found here
Oracle R2DBC uses READ COMMITTED as the default transaction isolation level.
Oracle R2DBC also supports the SERIALIZABLE isolation level. If SERIALIZABLE
isolation is configured, then the
oracle.r2dbc.OracleR2dbcOptions.ENABLE_QUERY_RESULT_CACHE
option must also be
configured as false
to avoid phantom reads.
READ COMMITTED and SERIALIZABLE are the only isolation levels supported by Oracle Database
Oracle Database does not support a lock wait timeout that is configurable within
the scope of a transaction or session. Oracle R2DBC implements SPI methods that
configure a lock wait timeout to throw UnsupportedOperationException
.
Oracle R2DBC supports SQL execution with the Statement
SPI.
A SQL command passed to Connection.createStatement(String)
may include
named parameter markers, unnamed parameter markers, or both.
Unnamed parameter markers may appear in SQL as a question mark
(?
):
connection.createStatement(
"SELECT value FROM example WHERE id=?")
.bind(0, 99)
The bind
method must be called with a zero-based index to set the value of an
unnamed parameter.
Named parameter markers may appear in SQL as a colon character (:
) followed by
an alpha-numeric name:
connection.createStatement(
"SELECT value FROM example WHERE id=:id")
.bind("id", 99)
The bind
method may be called with a String
valued name, or with zero-based
index, to set the value of a named parameter. Parameter names are
case-sensitive.
The Statement.add()
method may be used execute a DML command multiple times
with a batch of different bind values. Oracle Database only supports batch
execution for DML type SQL commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE). Attempting to
execute a SELECT query with a batch of bind values will result in an error.
The Statement.returnGeneratedValues(String...)
method may be called to return
generated values from basic forms of INSERT
and UPDATE
statements.
If an empty set of column names is passed to returnGeneratedValues
, the
Statement
will return the
ROWID
of each row affected by an INSERT or UPDATE.
Programmers are advised not to use the ROWID as if it were a primary key. The ROWID of a row change, or be reassigned to a different row. See https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/asktom.search?tag=is-it-safe-to-use-rowid-to-locate-a-row for more information.
Returning generated values is only supported for INSERT
and UPDATE
commands
in which a RETURNING INTO
clause would be valid. For example, if a table is
declared as:
CREATE TABLE example (
id NUMBER PRIMARY KEY GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,
value VARCAHR(100))
Returning generated values is supported for the following statement:
connection.createStatement(
"INSERT INTO example(value) VALUES (:value)")
.bind("value", "x")
.returningGeneratedValues("id")
This statement is supported because the INSERT
could be written to include a
RETURNING INTO
clause:
INSERT INTO example(value) VALUES (:value) RETURING id INTO :id
As a counter example, returning generated values is not supported for the following statement:
connection.createStatement(
"INSERT INTO example (value) SELECT 'y' FROM sys.dual")
.returningGeneratedValues("id")
This statement is not supported because it can not be written to include a
RETURNING INTO
clause.
The Oracle Database SQL Language Reference specifies the INSERT and UPDATE commands for which a RETURNING INTO clause is supported.
For the INSERT syntax, see: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/21/sqlrf/INSERT.html
For the UPDATE syntax, see: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/21/sqlrf/UPDATE.html
The SQL string passed to Connection.createStatement(String)
may execute a
PL/SQL call:
connection.createStatement("BEGIN sayHello(:name_in, :greeting_out); END;")
OUT parameters are registered by invoking
Statement.bind(int, Object)
or Statement.bind(String, Object)
with an instance of io.r2dbc.spi.Parameter
implementing the
io.r2dbc.spi.Parameter.Out
marker interface:
statement.bind("greeting_out", Parameters.out(R2dbcType.VARCHAR))
Likewise, an IN OUT parameter would be registered by invoking
Statement.bind(int, Object)
or Statement.bind(String, Object)
with an instance of io.r2dbc.spi.Parameter
implementing both the
io.r2dbc.spi.Parameter.Out
and io.r2dbc.spi.Parameter.In
marker interfaces.
OUT parameters are consumed by invoking Result.map(Function)
:
result.map(outParameters -> outParameters.get("greeting_out", String.class))
If a procedural call returns multiple results, the publisher returned by
Statement.execute()
emits one Result
for each cursor returned by
DBMS_SQL.RETURN_RESULT
in the procedure. The order in which each
Result
is emitted corresponds to the order in which the procedure returns each
cursor.
If a procedure returns cursors, and also has out parameters, then the Result
for the out parameters is emitted last, after the Result
for each cursor.
Oracle R2DBC supports type mappings between Java and SQL for non-standard data types of Oracle Database.
Oracle SQL Type | Java Type |
---|---|
JSON | javax.json.JsonObject or oracle.sql.json.OracleJsonObject |
DATE | java.time.LocalDateTime |
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND | java.time.Duration |
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH | java.time.Period |
Unlike the standard SQL type named "DATE", the Oracle Database type named "DATE" stores values for year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. The standard SQL type only stores year, month, and day. LocalDateTime objects are able to store the same values as a DATE in Oracle Database.
Oracle R2DBC allows large objects (LOBs) to be read and written as a reactive stream, or as a fully materialized value.
When a SQL query returns a LOB column, only a portion of the LOB's content is received in the response from Oracle Database. The portion received in the SQL query response is referred to as "prefetched data". Any content remaining after the prefetched portion must be fetched with additional database calls.
For example, if a SQL query returns a LOB that is 100MB in size, then the response might prefetch only the first 1MB of the LOB's content. Additional database calls would be required to fetch the remaining 99MB of content.
By default, Oracle R2DBC attempts to prefetch the entire content of a LOB. Oracle R2DBC will request up to 1GB of prefetched data from Oracle Database when executing a SQL query.
The Row.get(...)
method allows LOB values to be mapped into materialized
types like ByteBuffer
and String
. If the entire LOB has been prefetched,
then Row.get(...)
can return a ByteBuffer/String
without any additional
database calls. However, if the LOB value is larger than the prefetch size, then
Row.get(...)
must execute a blocking database call to fetch the remainder of that value.
In a system that consumes very large LOBs, a very large amount of memory will be
consumed if the entire LOB is prefetched. When a LOB is too large to be
prefetched entirely, a smaller prefetch size can be configured using the
oracle.jdbc.defaultLobPrefetchSize
option, and the LOB can be consumed as a stream. By mapping LOB columns to
Blob
or Clob
objects, the content can be consumed as a reactive stream.
The following security related guidelines should be adhered to when programming with the Oracle R2DBC Driver.
- Always specify the parameters of a SQL command using the bind methods of io.r2dbc.spi.Statement.
- Do not use String concatenation to specify parameters of a SQL command.
- Do not use format Strings to specify parameters of a SQL command.
- Do not hard code passwords in your source code.
- Avoid hard coding passwords in the R2DBC URL.
- When handling URL strings in code, be aware that a clear text password may appear in the user info section.
- Use a sensitive io.r2dbc.spi.Option to specify passwords.
- If possible, specify the Option's value as an instance of java.nio.CharBuffer or java.lang.StringBuffer and clear the contents immediately after ConnectionFactories.get(ConnectionFactoryOptions) has returned. Oracle R2DBC's implementation of ConnectionFactory does not retain a reference to the clear text password.
- Use SSL/TLS if possible. Use any of the following methods to enable SSL/TLS:
- Specify the boolean value of true for io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactoryOptions.SSL
- Specify "r2dbcs:" as the R2DBC URL schema.
- Specify "ssl=true" in the query section of the R2DBC URL.
- Use Option.sensitiveValueOf(String) when creating an Option that specifies a password.
- Option.sensitiveValueOf(OracleConnection.CONNECTION_PROPERTY_WALLET_PASSWORD)
- An SSO wallet does not require a password.
- Option.sensitiveValueOf(OracleConnection.CONNECTION_PROPERTY_THIN_JAVAX_NET_SSL_KEYSTOREPASSWORD)
- Option.sensitiveValueOf(OracleConnection.CONNECTION_PROPERTY_THIN_JAVAX_NET_SSL_TRUSTSTOREPASSWORD)
- Option.sensitiveValueOf(OracleConnection.CONNECTION_PROPERTY_WALLET_PASSWORD)
- Use a connection pool and configure a maximum size to limit the number of database sessions created by ConnectionFactory.create()
- Enforce a maximum batch size to limit invocations of Statement.add() or Batch.add(String).
- Enforce a maximum fetch size to limit values supplied to Statement.fetchSize(int).
- Enforce a maximum buffer size to limit memory usage when reading Blob and Clob objects.