Using the MyBatis API

With MyBatis-Spring, you can continue to directly use the MyBatis API. Simply create an SqlSessionFactory in Spring using SqlSessionFactoryBean and use the factory in your code.

public class UserMapperSqlSessionImpl implements UserMapper {
  // SqlSessionFactory would normally be set by SqlSessionDaoSupport
  private SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory;

  public void setSqlSessionFactory(SqlSessionFactory sqlSessionFactory) {
    this.sqlSessionFactory = sqlSessionFactory;
  }

  public User getUser(String userId) {
    // note standard MyBatis API usage - opening and closing the session manually
    SqlSession session = sqlSessionFactory.openSession();

    try {
      return (User) session.selectOne("org.mybatis.spring.sample.mapper.UserMapper.getUser", userId);
    } finally {
      session.close();
    }
  }
}

Use this option with care because wrong usage may produce runtime errors or worse, data integrity problems. Be aware of the following caveats with direct API usage:

• It will not participate in any Spring transactions.

• If the SqlSession is using a DataSource that is also being used by a Spring transaction manager and there is currently a transaction in progress, this code will throw an exception.

• MyBatis' DefaultSqlSession is not thread safe. If you inject it in your beans you will get errors.

• Mappers created using DefaultSqlSession are not thread safe either. If you inject them it in your beans you will get errors.

• You must make sure that your SqlSessions are always closed in a finally block.