Pivotal GemFire 9.3.0: Spring Data GemFire XML config in GemFire cluster

Question

I am migrating my GemFire cluster from 8.2.7 (with Spring Data GemFire 1.6.0.RELEASE) to Pivotal GemFire 9.3.0 (SDG 2.0.7.RELEASE). I was using spring-context.xml (declared under the initializer tag in cache.xml ) to initialize the Regions while starting cache servers on each node.

When I try to reuse the same spring-context.xml for Pivotal GemFire 9.3.0, my Spring beans tag is not identified by the gfsh command and I am getting following exception:

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 9; columnNumber: 107; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'beans'.

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:203)

        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:134)

spring-context.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:gfe="http://www.springframework.org/schema/geode"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/geode http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire/spring-geode.xsd
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

    <util:properties id="gemfireProperties">
        <prop key="log-level">config</prop>
        <prop key="locators">hostA[10334],hostB[10334]</prop>
    </util:properties>

    <bean id="mappingPdxSerializer" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.mapping.MappingPdxSerializer"/>

    <gfe:cache properties-ref="gemfireProperties" pdx-serializer-ref="mappingPdxSerializer"/>

    <gfe:replicated-region id="Product">
    </gfe:replicated-region>

    <gfe:replicated-region id="ProductCustomer">
    </gfe:replicated-region>

</beans>

I updated the XML schema paths from " gemfire " to " geode " based on Spring documentation for spring-data-gemfire:2.0.7.RELEASE .

Trying with GF 9.1.1 and SDGF 2.0.7. (SDGF jar is placed in lib)

Script:

#!/bin/sh
export PATH=$PATH:/var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1:/opt/jdk/1.8.0_71l64/bin/:/var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1/bin/
export GEMFIRE=/var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1/


for i in `ls  /var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1/lib/*.jar`
do
  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${i}
done
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1/config
#echo $CLASSPATH

if [ -e "/var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1/config/spring-context.xml" ]; then
   echo "File exists"
else
 echo "File does not exist"
fi


gfsh start server --name=server1 --server-port=40405 --classpath=$CLASSPATH --spring-xml-location=/var/tmp/user/gemfire/9.1.1/config/spring-context.xml  --locators=hostA[10334],hostB[10334] --mcast-port=0

UPDATE:

FileNotFoundException thrown :

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [var/tmp/sn17180/gemfire/9.1.1/config/spring-context.xml] cannot be opened because it does not exist

        at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:172)

        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:330)

        ... 17 more

I have given permission to all the files and -e "/" in my script is also printing "File exists".

UPDATE:

cache.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cache xmlns="http://geode.apache.org/schema/cache"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://geode.apache.org/schema/cache http://geode.apache.org/schema/cache/cache-1.0.xsd"
       version="1.0">

  <region name="Parent" refid="REPLICATE">
    <region name="Child" refid="REPLICATE"/>
  </region>

</cache>

gemfire-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:gfe="http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire"
       xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire/spring-gemfire.xsd
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd">

    <util:properties id="gemfireProperties">
        <prop key="locators">xyz[10334],xyx[10334]</prop>
        <prop key="mcast-port">0</prop>
    </util:properties>

    <bean id="autoSerializer" class="org.apache.geode.pdx.ReflectionBasedAutoSerializer"/>

    <gfe:cache properties-ref="gemfireProperties" cache-xml-location="cache.xml" pdx-serializer-ref="autoSerializer" pdx-read-serialized="true"/>   

</beans>

Answer 1

Pivotal GemFire stopped shipping with Spring Data GemFire in the $GEMFIRE_HOME/lib directory as of the 9.x release series. There are 2 primary reasons for this.

1) First, it was somewhat of a conundrum that Pivotal GemFire depended on SDG, which was entirely for gfsh>start server --name=SpringConfiguredServer --spring-xml-location-/path/to/spring/context.xml , when SDG depended on Pivotal GemFire, which clearly forms a circular dependency.

2) Pivotal GemFire lags significantly behind the current state of the Spring ecosystem when it pertains to versions. Even the latest release, 9.3.0, ships with outdated Spring JARs, eg core Spring Framework 4.3.13.RELEASE , when core Spring Framework 4.3.17.RELEASE is already available as well as 5.0.6.RELEASE , with 5.1 on the horizon.

Having said that, it is still possible to configure and bootstrap your Pivotal GemFire Servers with Spring when started from Gfsh using the start server command, --spring-xml-location option. You simply need to download the appropriate version of SDG based on the Pivotal GemFire version you are using (eg (9.3.0)) and put SDG on the classpath when starting the server.

NOTE: currently, SDG 2.1.0.M3 (SD Lovelace ) is the only version based on Pivotal GemFire 9.3 and later; currently set to 9.5.0.

NOTE: also not, I don't specifically recall whether I ran into any API breaking changes between upgrading SDG Lovelace progressively from Pivotal GemFire 9.3, then to 9.4 and finally arriving at 9.5. If you have trouble with spring-data-gemfire:2.1.0.M3 , you can also use spring-data-gemfire:2.1.0.M2 which was based on Pivotal GemFire 9.3 at the time.

So following the recipe above, you would do the following...

gfsh> start server --name=SpringConfiguredServer --classpath=/file/system/path/to/spring-data-gemfire22.1.0.M3.jar --spring-xml-location=/classpath/to/your/spring-context.xml

This should work!

Also, you do not need to switch schemas from "gemfire" to "geode". When you are using Spring Data GemFire, then use the "spring-gemfire" schema. When you are using Spring Data Geode, then use the "spring-geode" schema. Either will probably work, but...

Hope this helps!

-j