org.eclipse.persistence.annotations
Annotation Type RangePartitioning

@Target(value={TYPE,METHOD,FIELD})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface RangePartitioning

RangePartitioningPolicy partitions access to a database cluster by a field value from the object, such as the object's id, location, or tenant. Each server is assigned a range of values. All write or read request for object's with that value are sent to the server. If a query does not include the field as a parameter, then it can either be sent to all server's and unioned, or left to the sesion's default behavior.

If multiple partitions are used to process a single transaction, JTA should be used for proper XA transaction support.

Partitioning can be enabled on an Entity, relationship, query, or session/persistence unit. Partition policies are globally named to allow reuse, the partitioning policy must also be set using the @Partitioned annotation to be used.

See Also:

Partitioned, RangePartitioningPolicy

Author:

James Sutherland

Since:

EclipseLink 2.2

Required Element Summary

java.lang.String	name The name of the partition policy, names must be unique for the persistence unit.
Column	partitionColumn The database column or query parameter to partition queries by.
RangePartition[]	partitions (Required) List of connection pool names to load balance across.

Optional Element Summary

java.lang.Class	partitionValueType The type of the start and end values.
boolean	unionUnpartitionableQueries Defines if queries that do not contain the partition field should be sent to every database and have the result unioned.

Element Detail

name

public abstract java.lang.String name

The name of the partition policy, names must be unique for the persistence unit.

partitionColumn

public abstract Column partitionColumn

The database column or query parameter to partition queries by. This is the table column name, not the class attribute name. The column value must be included in the query and should normally be part of the object's Id. This can also be the name of a query parameter. If a query does not contain the field the query will not be partitioned.

partitions

public abstract RangePartition[] partitions

(Required) List of connection pool names to load balance across.

partitionValueType

public abstract java.lang.Class partitionValueType

The type of the start and end values.

Default:

java.lang.String.class

unionUnpartitionableQueries

public abstract boolean unionUnpartitionableQueries

Defines if queries that do not contain the partition field should be sent to every database and have the result unioned.

Default:

false