Accessing Data from the Database

After the BookDBAO object obtains an EntityManager instance, it can access data from the database. The getBooks method of BookDBAO calls the createQuery method of the EntityManager instance to retrieve a list of all books by bookId:

public List getBooks() throws BooksNotFoundException {
    try {
        return em.createQuery(
            "SELECT bd FROM Book bd ORDER BY bd.bookId").
                getResultList();
    } catch(Exception ex){
        throw new BooksNotFoundException("Could not get books: "
             + ex.getMessage());
    }
}

The getBook method of BookDBAO uses the find method of the EntityManager instance to search the database for a particular book and return the associated Book instance:

public Book getBook(String bookId) throws BookNotFoundException {
    Book requestedBook = em.find(Book.class, bookId);
    if (requestedBook == null) {
        throw new BookNotFoundException("Couldn’t find book: "
             + bookId);
    }
    return requestedBook;
}

The next section describes how Duke’s Bookstore performs updates to the data.