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This section contains information on the following subjects:
Section 10.1, "Overview of Oracle CQL Processor Configuration"
Section 10.3, "Configuring an Oracle CQL Processor Table Source"
Section 10.4, "Configuring an Oracle CQL Processor Cache Source"
Section 10.5, "Example Oracle CQL Processor Configuration Files"
Note: Oracle CQL replaces Event Processing Language (EPL) in Oracle CEP Release 11gR1 (11.1.1). Oracle CEP supports EPL for backwards compatibility. For more information, see Chapter 11, "Configuring EPL Processors". |
An Oracle CEP application contains one or more complex event processors, or processors for short. Each processor takes as input events from one or more adapters; these adapters in turn listen to data feeds that send a continuous stream of data from a source. The source could be anything, from a financial data feed to the Oracle CEP load generator.
The main feature of an Oracle CQL processor is its associated Oracle Continuous Query Language (Oracle CQL) rules that select a subset of the incoming events to then pass on to the component that is listening to the processor. The listening component could be another processor, or the business object POJO that typically defines the end of the event processing network, and thus does something with the events, such as publish them to a client application. For more information on Oracle CQL, see the Oracle CEP CQL Language Reference.
For each Oracle CQL processor in your application, you must create a processor
element in a component configuration file. In this processor
element you specify the initial set of Oracle CQL rules of the processor and any optional processor configuration.
You can configure additional optional Oracle CQL processor features in the Oracle CQL processor EPN assembly file.
The component configuration file processor
element's name
element must match the EPN assembly file processor
element's id
attribute. For example, given the EPN assembly file processor
element shown in Example 10-1, the corresponding component configuration file processor
element is shown in Example 10-2.
Example 10-1 EPN Assembly File Oracle CQL Processor Id: proc
<wlevs:processor id="proc"
>
<wlevs:table-source ref="Stock" />
</wlevs:processor>
Example 10-2 Component Configuration File Oracle CQL Processor Name: proc
<processor>
<name>proc</name>
<rules>
<query id="q1"><![CDATA[
SELECT ExchangeStream.symbol, ExchangeStream.price, Stock.exchange
FROM ExchangeStream [Now], Stock
WHERE ExchangeStream.symbol = Stock.symbol
]]></query>
</rules>
</procesor>
You can create a processor
element in any of the following component configuration files:
The default Oracle CEP application configuration file (by default, META-INF/wlevs/config.xml
).
A separate configuration file.
If your application has more than one processor, you can create a processor
element for each of them in the default config.xml
file, you can create separate XML files in META-INF/wlevs
for each, or create a single XML file in META-INF/wlevs
that contains the configuration for all processors, or even all components of your application (adapters, processors, and channels). Choose the method that best suits your development environment.
By default, Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse creates one component configuration file and one EPN assembly file. When you create an Oracle CQL processor using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse, by default, the processor element is added to the default component configuration file META-INF/wlevs/config.xml
file. Using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse, you can choose to create a new configuration file or use an existing configuration file at the time you create the Oracle CQL processor.
Component configuration files are deployed as part of the Oracle CEP application bundle. You can later update this configuration at runtime using Oracle CEP Visualizer, the wlevs.Admin
utility, or manipulating the appropriate JMX Mbeans directly.
For more information, see:
Oracle CEP Visualizer User's Guide
"wlevs.Admin Command-Line Reference" in the Oracle CEP Administrator's Guide
"Configuring JMX for Oracle CEP" in the Oracle CEP Administrator's Guide
For more information on Oracle CQL processor configuration, see:
You can configure a processor manually or by using the Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse.
See Section B.1, "Component Configuration Schema wlevs_application_config.xsd" for the complete XSD Schema that describes the processor component configuration file.
See Section 10.5, "Example Oracle CQL Processor Configuration Files" for a complete example of an Oracle CQL processor component configuration file and assembly file.
This section describes the following topics:
Section 10.2.1, "How to Configure an Oracle CQL Processor Using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse"
Section 10.2.2, "How to Create an Oracle CQL Processor Component Configuration File Manually"
The most efficient and least error-prone way to create and edit a processor is to use the Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse. Optionally, you can create and edit a processor manually (see Section 10.2.2, "How to Create an Oracle CQL Processor Component Configuration File Manually").
To configure an Oracle CQL processor using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse:
Use Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse to create a processor.
See Section 5.4.1.2, "How to Create a Processor Node".
When you use the EPN editor to create an Oracle CQL processor, Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse prompts you to choose either the default component configuration file or a new component configuration file. For more information, see Chapter 5, "Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse and the Event Processing Network".
Right-click the processor node and select Go to Configuration Source.
Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse opens the appropriate component configuration file. The default processor component configuration is shown in Example 10-3.
The default processor component configuration includes a name
element and rules
element.
Use the rules
element to group the child elements you create to contain the Oracle CQL statements this processor executes, including:
rule
: contains Oracle CQL statements that register or create user-defined windows. The rule
element id
attribute must match the name of the window.
view
: contains Oracle CQL view statements (the Oracle CQL equivalent of subqueries). The view
element id
attribute defines the name of the view.
query
: contains Oracle CQL select statements. The query
element id
attribute defines the name of the query.
The default processor component configuration includes a dummy query
element with id Query
.
Replace the dummy query
element with the rule
, view
, and query
elements you create to contain the Oracle CQL statements this processor executes.
For more information, see "Introduction to Oracle CQL Queries, Views, and Joins" in the Oracle CEP CQL Language Reference.
Select File > Save.
Optionally, configure additional Oracle CQL processor features in the assembly file:
Although the most efficient and least error-prone way to create and edit a processor configuration is to use the Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse (see Section 10.2.1, "How to Configure an Oracle CQL Processor Using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse"), alternatively, you can also create and maintain a processor configuration file manually.
This section describes the main steps to create the processor configuration file manually. For simplicity, it is assumed in the procedure that you are going to configure all processors in a single XML file, although you can also create separate files for each processor.
To create an Oracle CQL processor component configuration file manually:
Design the set of Oracle CQL rules that the processor executes. These rules can be as simple as selecting all incoming events to restricting the set based on time, property values, and so on, as shown in the following:
SELECT * FROM TradeStream [Now] WHERE price > 10000
Oracle CQL is similar in many ways to Structure Query Language (SQL), the language used to query relational database tables, although the syntax between the two differs in many ways. The other big difference is that Oracle CQL queries take another dimension into account (time), and the processor executes the Oracle CQL continually, rather than SQL queries that are static.
For more information, see "Introduction to Oracle CQL Queries, Views, and Joins" in the Oracle CEP CQL Language Reference.
Create the processor configuration XML file that will contain the Oracle CQL rules you designed in the preceding step, as well as other optional features, for each processor in your application.
You can name this XML file anything you want, provided it ends with the .xml
extension.
The root element of the processor configuration file is config
, with namespace definitions shown in the next step.
For each processor in your application, add a processor
child element of config
.
Uniquely identify each processor with the name
child element. This name must be the same as the value of the id
attribute in the wlevs:processor
element of the EPN assembly file that defines the event processing network of your application. This is how Oracle CEP knows to which particular processor component in the EPN assembly file this processor configuration applies. See Section 1.4, "Creating the EPN Assembly File" for details.
For example, if your application has two processors, the configuration file might initially look like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <n1:config xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/xml/ns/wlevs/config/application wlevs_application_config.xsd" xmlns:n1="http://www.bea.com/xml/ns/wlevs/config/application" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <processor> <name>firstProcessor</name> ... </processor> <processor> <name>secondProcessor</name> ... </processor> </n1:config>
In the example, the configuration file includes two processors called firstProcessor
and secondProcessor
. This means that the EPN assembly file must include at least two processor registrations with the same identifiers:
<wlevs:processor id="firstProcessor" ...> ... </wlevs:processor> <wlevs:processor id="secondProcessor" ...> ... </wlevs:processor>
Caution: Identifiers and names in XML files are case sensitive, so be sure you specify the same case when referencing the component's identifier in the EPN assembly file. |
Add a rules
child element to each processor
element.
Use the rules
element to group the child elements you create to contain the Oracle CQL statements this processor executes, including:
rule
: contains Oracle CQL statements that register or create user-defined windows. The rule
element id
attribute must match the name of the window.
view
: contains Oracle CQL view statements (the Oracle CQL equivalent of subqueries). The view
element id
attribute defines the name of the view.
query
: contains Oracle CQL select statements. The query
element id
attribute defines the name of the query.
Use the required id
attribute of the view
and query
elements to uniquely identify each rule. Use the XML CDATA
type to input the actual Oracle CQL rule. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <n1:config xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/config/application wlevs_application_config.xsd" xmlns:n1="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/config/application" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <processor> <name>proc</name> <rules> <rule id="range_slide"><![CDATA[ register window range_slide(winrange int, winslide int) implement using "MyRangeSlideWindow" ]]></rule> <view id="lastEvents" schema="cusip bid srcId bidQty"><![CDATA[ select mod(price) from filteredStream[partition by srcId, cusip rows 1] ]]></view> <query id="q1"><![CDATA[ SELECT * FROM lastEvents [Now] WHERE price > 10000 ]]></query> </rules> </processor> </n1:config>]]></query>
Save and close the file.
Optionally, configure additional Oracle CQL processor features in the assembly file:
You can configure an Oracle CQL processor to access a table in a relational database table as an event stream in which each row in the table is represented as a tuple.
In this section, assume that you create the table you want to access using the SQL statement that Example 10-4 shows.
Example 10-4 Table Create SQL Statement
create table Stock (symbol varchar(16), exchange varchar(16));
After configuration, you can define Oracle CQL queries that access the Stock
table as if it was just another event stream. In the following example, the query joins one event stream ExchangeStream
with the Stock
table:
SELECT ExchangeStream.symbol, ExchangeStream.price, Stock.exchange FROM ExchangeStream [Now], Stock WHERE ExchangeStream.symbol = Stock.symbol
The most efficient and least error-prone way to configure an Oracle CQL processor to access a relational database table is to use the Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse.
To configure an Oracle CQL processor table source using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse:
Create a data source for the database that contains the table you want to use.
Example 10-5 shows an example Oracle CEP server config.xml
file with data source StockDS
.
Example 10-5 Oracle CEP Server config.xml File With Data Source StockDS
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <n1:config xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/config/server wlevs_server_config.xsd" xmlns:n1="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/config/server" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <domain> <name>ocep_domain</name> </domain> ... <data-source> <name>StockDs</name> <connection-pool-params> <initial-capacity>1</initial-capacity> <max-capacity>10</max-capacity> </connection-pool-params> <driver-params> <url>jdbc:derby:</url> <driver-name>org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver</driver-name> <properties> <element> <name>databaseName</name> <value>db</value> </element> <element> <name>create</name> <value>true</value> </element> </properties> </driver-params> <!--<data-source-params> <jndi-names> <element>StockDs</element> </jndi-names> <global-transactions-protocol>None</global-transactions-protocol> </data-source-params>--> </data-source> ... </n1:config>
For more information, see "Configuring Access to a Relational Database" in the Oracle CEP Administrator's Guide.
Use Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse to create a table node.
Use Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse to create an Oracle CQL processor.
Connect the table node to the Oracle CQL processor node.
See Section 5.4.2.1, "How to Connect Nodes".
The EPN Editor adds a wlevs:table-source
element to the target processor node that references the source table.
Right-click the table node in your EPN and select Go to Assembly Source.
Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse opens the EPN assembly file for this table node.
Edit the table
element as Example 10-6 shows and configure the table
element attributes as shown in Table 10-1.
Example 10-6 EPN Assembly File table Element
<wlevs:table id="Stock" event-type="StockEvent" data-source="StockDs" />
Table 10-1 EPN Assembly File table Element Attributes
Attribute | Description |
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Right-click the Oracle CQL processor node connected to the table in your EPN and select Go to Assembly Source.
Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse opens the EPN assembly file for this Oracle CQL processor.
Edit the Oracle CQL processor element's table-source
child element as Example 10-7 shows.
Set the ref
attribute to the id
of the table
element you specified in step 6.
Edit the EPN assembly file to update the event-type-repository
element with a new event-type
child element for the table as Example 10-8shows.
Create a property
child element for each column of the table you want to access and configure the property attributes as shown in Table 10-2.
Example 10-8 EPN Assembly File event-type element for a Table
<wlevs:event-type-repository> ... <wlevs:event-type type-name="StockEvent"> <wlevs:properties> <wlevs:property name="symbol" type="[C" length="16" /> <wlevs:property name="exchange" type="[C" length="16" /> </wlevs:properties> </wlevs:event-type> ... </wlevs:event-type-repository>
Table 10-2 EPN Assembly File event-type Element Property Attributes
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The name of the table column you want to access as specified in the SQL create table statement. You do not need to specify all columns. |
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The Oracle CEP Java type from Table 10-3 that corresponds to the column's SQL data type. In Example 10-4, the |
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The column size as specified in the SQL create table statement. In Example 10-4, the |
Table 10-3 SQL Column Types and Oracle CEP Type Equivalents
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For more information on creating event types, see:
Edit the EPN assembly file to add Oracle CQL queries that use the table's event-type
as shown in Example 10-9.
Example 10-9 Oracle CQL Query Using Table Event Type StockEvent
<processor> <name>proc</name> <rules> <query id="q1"><![CDATA[ SELECT ExchangeStream.symbol, ExchangeStream.price, Stock.exchange FROM ExchangeStream [Now], Stock WHERE ExchangeStream.symbol = Stock.symbol ]]></query> </rules> </processor>
You can configure an Oracle CQL processor to access the Oracle CEP cache.
For more information, see:
This section provides example Oracle CQL processor configuration files, including:
The following example shows a component configuration file for an Oracle CQL processor.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <n1:config xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/config/application wlevs_application_config.xsd" xmlns:n1="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/config/application" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <processor> <name>proc</name> <rules> <view id="lastEvents" schema="cusip bid srcId bidQty ask askQty seq"><![CDATA[ select mod(price) from filteredStream[partition by srcId, cusip rows 1] ]]></view> <query id="q1"><![CDATA[ SELECT * FROM lastEvents [Now] WHERE price > 10000 ]]></query> </rules> </processor> </n1:config>
In the example, the name
element specifies that the processor for which the Oracle CQL rules are being configured is called proc
. This in turn implies that the EPN assembly file that defines your application must include a corresponding wlevs:processor
element with an id
attribute value of proc
to link these Oracle CQL rules with an actual proc
processor instance (see Section 10.5.2, "Oracle CQL Processor EPN Assembly File").
This Oracle CQL processor component configuration file also defines a view element to specify an Oracle CQL view
statement (the Oracle CQL equivalent of a subquery). The results of the view's select are not output to a down-stream channel.
Finally, this Oracle CQL processor component configuration file defines a query
element to specify an Oracle CQL query statement. The query statement selects from the view. By default, the results of a query are output to a down-stream channel. You can control this behavior in the channel configuration using a selector
element. For more information, see Section 9.2.1, "How to Configure a System-Timestamped Channel Using Oracle CEP IDE for Eclipse"
The following example shows an EPN assembly file for an Oracle CQL processor.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi" xmlns:wlevs="http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/spring" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/spring http://www.bea.com/ns/wlevs/spring/spring-wlevs-v11_0_0_0.xsd"> <wlevs:event-type-repository> <wlevs:event-type type-name="ExchangeEvent"> <wlevs:properties> <wlevs:property name="symbol" type="[C" length="16" /> <wlevs:property name="price" type="java.lang.Double" /> </wlevs:properties> </wlevs:event-type> <wlevs:event-type type-name="StockExchangeEvent"> <wlevs:properties> <wlevs:property name="symbol" type="[C" length="16" /> <wlevs:property name="price" type="java.lang.Double" /> <wlevs:property name="exchange" type="[C" length="16" /> </wlevs:properties> </wlevs:event-type> <wlevs:event-type type-name="StockEvent"> <wlevs:properties> <wlevs:property name="symbol" type="[C" length="16" /> <wlevs:property name="exchange" type="[C" length="16" /> </wlevs:properties> </wlevs:event-type> </wlevs:event-type-repository> <!-- Assemble EPN (event processing network) --> <wlevs:adapter id="adapter" class="com.bea.wlevs.example.db.ExchangeAdapter" > <wlevs:listener ref="ExchangeStream"/> </wlevs:adapter> <wlevs:channel id="ExchangeStream" event-type="ExchangeEvent" > <wlevs:listener ref="proc"/> </wlevs:channel> <wlevs:table id="Stock" event-type="StockEvent" data-source="StockDs" /> <wlevs:processor id="proc" advertise="true" > <wlevs:table-source ref="Stock" /> </wlevs:processor> <wlevs:channel id="OutputStream" advertise="true" event-type="StockExchangeEvent" > <wlevs:listener ref="bean"/> <wlevs:source ref="proc"/> </wlevs:channel> <osgi:reference id="ds" interface="com.bea.core.datasource.DataSourceService" cardinality="0..1" /> <!-- Create business object --> <bean id="bean" class="com.bea.wlevs.example.db.OutputBean"> <property name="dataSourceService" ref="ds"/> </bean> </beans>