Apache Commons DBUtils - Update Query

The following example will demonstrate how to update a record using Update query with the help of DBUtils. We'll update a record in Employees Table.

Syntax

The syntax for update query is as follows −

String updateQuery = "UPDATE employees SET age=? WHERE id=?";
int updatedRecords = queryRunner.update(conn, updateQuery, 33,104);

Where,

• updateQuery − Update query having placeholders.

• queryRunner − QueryRunner object to update employee object in database.

To understand the above mentioned concepts related to DBUtils, let us write an example which will run an update query. To write our example, let us create a sample application.

Following is the content of the Employee.java.

public class Employee {
   private int id;
   private int age;
   private String first;
   private String last;
   public int getId() {
      return id;
   }
   public void setId(int id) {
      this.id = id;
   }
   public int getAge() {
      return age;
   }
   public void setAge(int age) {
      this.age = age;
   }
   public String getFirst() {
      return first;
   }
   public void setFirst(String first) {
      this.first = first;
   }
   public String getLast() {
      return last;
   }
   public void setLast(String last) {
      this.last = last;
   }
}

Following is the content of the MainApp.java file.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import org.apache.commons.dbutils.DbUtils;
import org.apache.commons.dbutils.QueryRunner;

public class MainApp {
   // JDBC driver name and database URL
   static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
   static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/emp";

   // Database credentials
   static final String USER = "root";
   static final String PASS = "admin";
   public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
      Connection conn = null;
      QueryRunner queryRunner = new QueryRunner();
      DbUtils.loadDriver(JDBC_DRIVER);
      conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL, USER, PASS);
      try {
         int updatedRecords = queryRunner.update(conn,
            "UPDATE employees SET age=? WHERE id=?", 33,104);
         System.out.println(updatedRecords + " record(s) updated.");
      } finally {
         DbUtils.close(conn);
      }
   }
}

Once you are done creating the source files, let us run the application. If everything is fine with your application, it will print the following message −

1 record(s) updated.