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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="repmgr_init_example_c"></a>Adding the Replication Manager to
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<p>
We now use the methods described above to add partial
support to the
<span>SimpleTxn</span>
example that we presented in
<a class="xref" href="txnapp.html" title="Chapter 2. Transactional Application">Transactional Application</a>.
That is, in this section we will:
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Enhance our command line options to
accept information of interest to a
replicated application.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Configure our environment handle to use
replication and the Replication Manager.
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</li>
<li>
<p>
Minimally configure the Replication Manager.
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<li>
<p>
Start replication.
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<p>
Note that when we are done with this section, we will be
only partially ready to run the application. Some critical
pieces will be missing; specifically, we will not yet be
handling the differences between a master and a
replica. (We do that in the next chapter).
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<p>
Also, note that in the following code fragments, additions
and changes to the code are marked in <strong class="userinput"><code>bold</code></strong>.
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<p>
To begin, we make some significant changes to our
<code class="classname">RepConfig</code> class because we will be
using it to maintain a lot more information that we needed
for our simple transactional example.
</p>
<p>
We begin by importing a few new
classes. <code class="classname">java.util.Vector</code> is used to
organize a list of "other host" definitions (that is, the host and
port information for the other replication participants known to
this application). We also need a couple of classes used to manage
individual host and port information, as well as replication
startup policy information.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><strong class="userinput"><code>package db.repquote_gsg;
import java.util.Vector;
import com.sleepycat.db.ReplicationHostAddress;
import com.sleepycat.db.ReplicationManagerStartPolicy;</code></strong>
public class RepConfig
{ </pre>
<p>
Next we add considerably to the constants and data members used by
this class. All of this is used to manage information necessary for
replication purposes. We also at this point change the program's
name, since we will be doing that to the main class in our
application a little later in this description.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> // Constant values used in the RepQuote application.
public static final String progname = <strong class="userinput"><code>"RepQuoteExampleGSG";</code></strong>
public static final int CACHESIZE = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
<strong class="userinput"><code>public static final int SLEEPTIME = 5000;</code></strong>
// member variables containing configuration information
// String specifying the home directory for rep files.
public String home;
// stores an optional set of "other" hosts.
<strong class="userinput"><code>public Vector<ReplicationHostAddress> otherHosts;
// priority within the replication group.
public int priority;
public ReplicationManagerStartPolicy startPolicy;
// The host address to listen to.
public ReplicationHostAddress thisHost;
// Optional parameter specifying the # of sites in the
// replication group.
public int totalSites;
// member variables used internally.
private int currOtherHost;
private boolean gotListenAddress;</code></strong></pre>
<p>
Now we update our class constructor to initialize all of these new
variables:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> public RepConfig()
{
<strong class="userinput"><code>startPolicy = ReplicationManagerStartPolicy.REP_ELECTION;</code></strong>
home = "TESTDIR";
<strong class="userinput"><code>gotListenAddress = false;
totalSites = 0;
priority = 100;
currOtherHost = 0;
thisHost = new ReplicationHostAddress();
otherHosts = new Vector()<ReplicationHostAddress>;</code></strong>
} </pre>
<p>
Finally, we finish updating this class by providing a series of new
getter and setter methods. These are used primarily for setting a
retrieving host information of interest to our replicated
application:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> public java.io.File getHome()
{
return new java.io.File(home);
}
<strong class="userinput"><code>public void setThisHost(String host, int port)
{
gotListenAddress = true;
thisHost.port = port;
thisHost.host = host;
}
public ReplicationHostAddress getThisHost()
{
if (!gotListenAddress) {
System.err.println("Warning: no host specified.");
System.err.println("Returning default.");
}
return thisHost;
}
public boolean gotListenAddress() {
return gotListenAddress;
}
public void addOtherHost(String host, int port, boolean peer)
{
ReplicationHostAddress newInfo =
new ReplicationHostAddress(host, port, peer);
otherHosts.add(newInfo);
}
public ReplicationHostAddress getFirstOtherHost()
{
currOtherHost = 0;
if (otherHosts.size() == 0)
return null;
return (ReplicationHostAddress)otherHosts.get(currOtherHost);
}
public ReplicationHostAddress getNextOtherHost()
{
currOtherHost++;
if (currOtherHost >= otherHosts.size())
return null;
return (ReplicationHostAddress)otherHosts.get(currOtherHost);
}
public ReplicationHostAddress getOtherHost(int i)
{
if (i >= otherHosts.size())
return null;
return (ReplicationHostAddress)otherHosts.get(i);
}</code></strong>
} </pre>
<p>
Having completed our update to the
<code class="classname">RepConfig</code>
class, we can now start making
changes to the main portion of our program. We begin by changing
the program's name. <span>(This, of course, means that we copy our
<code class="classname">SimpleTxn</code> code to a file named <code class="literal">RepQuoteExampleGSG.java</code>.)</span>
</p>
<pre class="programlisting">package db.repquote_gsg;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
<strong class="userinput"><code>import java.lang.Thread;
import java.lang.InterruptedException;</code></strong>
import com.sleepycat.db.Cursor;
import com.sleepycat.db.Database;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseConfig;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseEntry;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseType;
import com.sleepycat.db.Environment;
import com.sleepycat.db.EnvironmentConfig;
import com.sleepycat.db.LockMode;
import com.sleepycat.db.OperationStatus;
import db.repquote.RepConfig;
public class <strong class="userinput"><code>RepQuoteExampleGSG</code></strong>
{
private RepConfig repConfig;
private Environment dbenv; </pre>
<p>
Next we update our usage function. The application will continue to
accept the <code class="literal">-h</code> parameter so that we can identify
the environment home directory used by this application. However,
we also add the
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<code class="literal">-l</code> parameter which allows us to
identify the host and port used by this application to
listen for replication messages.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<code class="literal">-r</code> parameter which allows us to
specify other replicas.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<code class="literal">-n</code> parameter which allows us to
identify the number of sites in this replication
group.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<code class="literal">-p</code> option, which is used to identify
this replica's priority (recall that the priority is
used as a tie breaker for elections)
</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<pre class="programlisting">
public <strong class="userinput"><code>RepQuoteExampleGSG()</code></strong>
throws DatabaseException
{
repConfig = null;
dbenv = null;
}
public static void usage()
{
System.err.println("usage: " + repConfig.progname);
System.err.println("-h home<strong class="userinput"><code>[-r host:port][-l host:port]" +
"[-n nsites][-p priority]</code></strong>");
System.err.println(<strong class="userinput"><code>"\t -l host:port +
"(required; l stands for local)\n" +
"\t -r host:port (optional; r stands for replica; any " +
"number of these may be specified)\n" +</code></strong>
"\t -h home directory\n" +
<strong class="userinput"><code>"\t -n nsites (optional; number of sites in replication " +
"group; defaults to 0\n" +
"\t in which case we try to dynamically compute the " +
"number of sites in\n" +
"\t the replication group)\n" +
"\t -p priority (optional: defaults to 100)\n");</code></strong>
System.exit(1);
} </pre>
<p>
Now we can begin working on our <code class="literal">main()</code> function.
We begin by adding a couple of variables that we will use to
collect TCP/IP host and port information.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> public static void main(String[] argv)
throws Exception
{
RepConfig config = new RepConfig();
<strong class="userinput"><code>String tmpHost;
int tmpPort = 0;</code></strong> </pre>
<p>
Now we collect our command line arguments. As we do so, we will
configure host and port information as required, and we will
configure the application's election priority if necessary.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> // Extract the command line parameters
for (int i = 0; i < argv.length; i++)
{
if (argv[i].compareTo("-h") == 0) {
// home - a string arg.
i++;
config.home = argv[i];
<strong class="userinput"><code>} else if (argv[i].compareTo("-l") == 0) {
// "me" should be host:port
i++;
String[] words = argv[i].split(":");
if (words.length != 2) {
System.err.println(
"Invalid host specification host:port needed.");
usage();
}
try {
tmpPort = Integer.parseInt(words[1]);
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
System.err.println("Invalid host specification, " +
"could not parse port number.");
usage();
}
config.setThisHost(words[0], tmpPort);
} else if (argv[i].compareTo("-n") == 0) {
i++;
config.totalSites = Integer.parseInt(argv[i]);
} else if (argv[i].compareTo("-p") == 0) {
i++;
config.priority = Integer.parseInt(argv[i]);
} else if (argv[i].compareTo("-r") == 0) {
i++;
String[] words = argv[i].split(":");
if (words.length != 2) {
System.err.println(
"Invalid host specification host:port needed.");
usage();
}
try {
tmpPort = Integer.parseInt(words[1]);
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
System.err.println("Invalid host specification, " +
"could not parse port number.");
usage();
}
config.addOtherHost(words[0], tmpPort, isPeer);
}</code></strong> else {
System.err.println("Unrecognized option: " + argv[i]);
usage();
}
}
// Error check command line.
if (<strong class="userinput"><code>(!config.gotListenAddress())</code></strong> || config.home.length() == 0)
usage(); </pre>
<p>
Having done that, the remainder of our <code class="function">main()</code>
function is left unchanged, with the exception of a few name changes required by the
new class name:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> <strong class="userinput"><code>RepQuoteExampleGSG</code></strong> runner = null;
try {
runner = new <strong class="userinput"><code>RepQuoteExampleGSG();</code></strong>
runner.init(config);
runner.doloop();
runner.terminate();
} catch (DatabaseException dbe) {
System.err.println("Caught an exception during " +
"initialization or processing: " + dbe.toString());
if (runner != null)
runner.terminate();
}
System.exit(0);
} // end main </pre>
<p>
Now we need to update our
<code class="methodname">RepQuoteExampleGSG.init()</code>
method. Our updates are at first related to configuring
replication. First, we need to update the method so that we can
identify the local site to the environment handle (that is, the site identified by the
<code class="literal">-l</code> command line option):
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> public int init(RepConfig config)
throws DatabaseException
{
int ret = 0;
appConfig = config;
EnvironmentConfig envConfig = new EnvironmentConfig();
envConfig.setErrorStream(System.err);
envConfig.setErrorPrefix(RepConfig.progname);
<strong class="userinput"><code>envConfig.setReplicationManagerLocalSite(appConfig.getThisHost());</code></strong> </pre>
<p>
And we also add code to allow us to identify "other" sites to the environment handle (that is,
the sites that we identify using the <code class="literal">-o</code> command line
option). To do this, we iterate over each of the "other" sites provided to
us using the <code class="literal">-o</code> command line option, and we add each one
individually in turn:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> <strong class="userinput"><code>for (ReplicationHostAddress host = appConfig.getFirstOtherHost();
host != null; host = appConfig.getNextOtherHost())
{
envConfig.replicationManagerAddRemoteSite(host);
}</code></strong> </pre>
<p>
And then we need code to allow us to identify the total number of sites
in this replication group, and to set the environment's priority.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> <strong class="userinput"><code>if (appConfig.totalSites > 0)
envConfig.setReplicationNumSites(appConfig.totalSites);
envConfig.setReplicationPriority(appConfig.priority); </code></strong> </pre>
<p>
<span>We can now open our environment. Note that the options</span>
we use to open the environment are slightly different for a
replicated application than they are for a non-replicated
application. Namely, replication requires the
<span>
<code class="methodname">EnvironmentConfig.setInitializeReplication()</code> option.
</span>
</p>
<p>
Also, because we are using the Replication Manager, we must prepare
our environment for threaded usage. For this reason, we also
need the <code class="literal">DB_THREAD</code> flag.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> envConfig.setCacheSize(RepConfig.CACHESIZE);
envConfig.setTxnNoSync(true);
envConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
envConfig.setRunRecovery(true);
<strong class="userinput"><code>envConfig.setInitializeReplication(true);</code></strong>
envConfig.setInitializeLocking(true);
envConfig.setInitializeLogging(true);
envConfig.setInitializeCache(true);
envConfig.setTransactional(true);
try {
dbenv = new Environment(appConfig.getHome(), envConfig);
} catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
System.err.println("FileNotFound exception: " + e.toString());
System.err.println(
"Ensure that the environment directory is pre-created.");
ret = 1;
} </pre>
<p>
Finally, we start replication before we exit this method.
Immediately after exiting this method, our application will go into
the
<code class="methodname">RepQuoteExampleGSG.doloop()</code>
method, which is where
the bulk of our application's work is performed. We update that
method in the next chapter.
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"> // start Replication Manager
dbenv.replicationManagerStart(3, appConfig.startPolicy);
return ret;
} </pre>
<p>
This completes our replication updates for the moment. We are not as
yet ready to actually run this program; there remains a few
critical pieces left to add to it. However, the work that we
performed in this section represents a solid foundation for the
remainder of our replication work.
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