Hi Navin, A DB connection is from one machine to another, how do you expect to share that between spouts and/or bolts that run on multiple machines? You should really set up the connection in open() or prepare(), so that it is specific to the machine that the spout or bolt runs on.
Thanks, Ray From: Navin Ipe [mailto:navin....@searchlighthealth.com] Sent: woensdag 4 mei 2016 11:48 To: user@storm.apache.org Subject: How to you store database connections in a Spout or Bolt without serialization problems? Hi, I know that if a MySQL database connection is instantiated in the constructor of a Spout or Bolt, it won't work. It should be instantiated in open() or prepare(). Problem is, when I store this database connection as a member of a class which is a member of a bolt. Eg: public class MongoIteratorBolt extends BaseRichBolt { private S1Table s1; } public class S1Table implements Serializable { private Connection connRef; private Statement stmt; private ResultSet rs; public S1Table(Connection conn, final String tableName) { try { this.connRef = conn; this.stmt = conn.createStatement(); I get an error like this: 8811 [main] ERROR o.a.s.s.o.a.z.s.NIOServerCnxnFactory - Thread Thread[main,5,main] died java.lang.IllegalStateException: Bolt 'mongoBolt' contains a non-serializable field of type com.mysql.jdbc.SingleByteCharsetConverter, which was instantiated prior to topology creation. com.mysql.jdbc.SingleByteCharsetConverter should be instantiated within the prepare method of 'mongoBolt at the earliest. at org.apache.storm.topology.TopologyBuilder.createTopology(TopologyBuilder.java:127) ~[MyStorm.jar:?] at com.slh.Mystorm.MyStorm.main(MyStorm.java:76) ~[MyStorm.jar:?] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.NotSerializableException: com.mysql.jdbc.SingleByteCharsetConverter at org.apache.storm.utils.Utils.javaSerialize(Utils.java:167) ~[MyStorm.jar:?] at org.apache.storm.topology.TopologyBuilder.createTopology(TopologyBuilder.java:122) ~[MyStorm.jar:?] ... 1 more Caused by: java.io.NotSerializableException: com.mysql.jdbc.SingleByteCharsetConverter at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1184) ~[?:1.8.0_73] I assume it is because of one of these which aren't getting serialized: private Connection connRef; private Statement stmt; private ResultSet rs; So if you can't declare them as class members because they don't get serialized, then how do you declare them so that the entire class will have access to it and I won't have to keep creating new connections for every query? I'm quite sure that declaring and initializing them in prepare() won't ensure that the rest of the class functions would be able to access it. -- Regards, Navin
