Jdbctemplate query for string: EmptyResultDataAccessException: Incorrect result size: expected 1, actual 0

Question

I am using Jdbctemplate to retrieve a single String value from the db. Here is my method.

    public String test() {
        String cert=null;
        Strin         


        

Answer 1

Since returning a null when there is no data is something I want to do often when using queryForObject I have found it useful to extend JdbcTemplate and add a queryForNullableObject method similar to below.

public class JdbcTemplateExtended extends JdbcTemplate {

    public JdbcTemplateExtended(DataSource datasource){
        super(datasource);
    }

    public  T queryForNullableObject(String sql, RowMapper rowMapper) throws DataAccessException {
        List results = query(sql, rowMapper);

        if (results == null || results.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
        else if (results.size() > 1) {
            throw new IncorrectResultSizeDataAccessException(1, results.size());
        }
        else{
            return results.iterator().next();
        }
    }

    public  T queryForNullableObject(String sql, Class requiredType) throws DataAccessException {
        return queryForObject(sql, getSingleColumnRowMapper(requiredType));
    }

}

You can now use this in your code the same way you used queryForObject

String result = queryForNullableObject(queryString, String.class);

I would be interested to know if anyone else thinks this is a good idea?