Has anyone tried implementing a unsupported database to use for jobRepository for Spring Batch?

Question

My database Sap Hana db is not supported for Spring Batch. I am looking for a guide on how to implement my own DAOs for SimpleJobRepository for SpringBatch. Has tried this before?

I did not include the database type property because according to spring batch website not including it will auto search for a database type. I also used JobRepositoryFactoryBean since the db is unsupported.

I am excited though to write my own implementation for this, maybe i can contribute it to spring batch source.

My Setting is as follows:

   <bean id="jobRepository"
        class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.JobRepositoryFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
        <property name="isolationLevelForCreate" value="ISOLATION_DEFAULT" />
        <property name="validateTransactionState" value="false"/>
    </bean> 

Currently I am getting the following error:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jobRepository' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/batch-context.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: DatabaseType not found for product name: [HDB]
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1482)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:521)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:458)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:295)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:223)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:292)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:323)
    ... 59 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: DatabaseType not found for product name: [HDB]
    at org.springframework.batch.support.DatabaseType.fromProductName(DatabaseType.java:79)
    at org.springframework.batch.support.DatabaseType.fromMetaData(DatabaseType.java:110)
    at org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.JobRepositoryFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(JobRepositoryFactoryBean.java:182)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1541)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1479)
    ... 66 more

Answer 1

Spring Batch 3 offers the opportunity to inject custom database types. Check DatabaseType and JobRepositoryFactotyBean.setDatabaseType() (instead of let SB autodetect database type from datasource).
Of course you need to create scripts for metadata tables creation (use this blog post for an example and official doc)

Answer 2

I manage to fix the problem above by implementing my own DataFieldMaxValueIncrementerFactory and my own DatabaseType then I autowired the values to SimpleJobServerFactory.