# 6. The JDBC writer, and why it is not `beanMapped()`

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`JdbcBatchItemWriterBuilder` offers two ways to map an item's fields to SQL parameters:
`columnMapped()` (positional, via `Map`/`SqlParameterSource` keyed by column name) and
`beanMapped()` (reflective, via `BeanPropertySqlParameterSource`, matching `:paramName` markers
in the SQL to JavaBean getters). Most Spring Batch examples reach for `beanMapped()` because it
needs the least code.

`Product` in this module is a Java record:

```java
public record Product(String sku, String name, long priceCents) {}
```

Its accessors are `sku()`, `name()`, `priceCents()` — no `get` prefix. Standard JavaBean
introspection, which `BeanPropertySqlParameterSource` uses, looks for `getSku()`, `getName()`,
`getPriceCents()`. Those do not exist on a record, so `beanMapped()` against a plain record either
finds nothing to bind (leaving every parameter `NULL`) or fails outright, depending on the exact
introspector version in play — not a mistake you want to discover from a table full of NULLs
in production.

[`BatchConfig.productWriter`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/batch/config/BatchConfig.java) sidesteps
the question entirely with `itemPreparedStatementSetter`, setting each column explicitly:

```java
new JdbcBatchItemWriterBuilder<Product>()
        .dataSource(jdbcTemplate.getDataSource())
        .sql("INSERT INTO PRODUCT (sku, name, price_cents) VALUES (?, ?, ?)")
        .itemPreparedStatementSetter((item, ps) -> {
            ps.setString(1, item.sku());
            ps.setString(2, item.name());
            ps.setLong(3, item.priceCents());
        })
        .assertUpdates(true)
        .build();
```

More typing, zero ambiguity about what gets bound where, and it works identically whether the
item type is a record, a plain class, or something with no JavaBean getters at all.

<blockquote style="background:#f4f5f7;border:1px solid #e2e5ea;border-left:4px solid #b7bec9;border-radius:6px;padding:16px 20px;"><strong>If you want <code>beanMapped()</code> with records anyway.</strong> Newer versions of Spring's <code>BeanWrapperImpl</code> (the machinery behind <code>BeanPropertySqlParameterSource</code>) have gained some record support in recent Spring Framework releases, but the safe rule is to check it against the exact Spring Framework version you are on rather than assume &mdash; the failure mode when it does not work is silent <code>NULL</code>s, not an exception, which is the worst kind of wrong.</blockquote>

`assertUpdates(true)` is worth keeping on deliberately: it makes the writer throw if a batch
statement reports zero rows updated for any item, instead of silently accepting a no-op write.
Combined with `itemPreparedStatementSetter`, a typo in a column name fails loudly at the first
write attempt rather than producing a table that looks plausible but is missing a column's worth
of data.

## Going deeper

- `JdbcBatchItemWriter` and its two mapping styles: [Spring Batch reference &mdash; item writers](https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/reference/readers-and-writers/item-writer.html) (`rel="nofollow"`).
- Java records and JavaBean introspection generally: this is not a Spring Batch quirk, it is how
  `java.beans.Introspector` has always worked, and it bites anywhere a library assumes
  `getX()`/`setX()` &mdash; Jackson, JPA, validation frameworks &mdash; each with its own answer
  for how much (if any) record support it has added.

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