Placing Objects in an Entity Store
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## Placing Objects in an Entity Store

In order to place an object in a DPL entity store, you must:

1. Open the environment and store.

2. Instantiate the object.

3. Put the object to the store using the `put()` method for the object's primary index.

The following example uses the `SimpleDA` class that we show in SimpleDA.class to put a `SimpleEntityClass` object (see A Simple Entity Class) to the entity store.

To begin, we import the Java classes that our example needs. We also instantiate the private data members that we require.

    package persist.gettingStarted;

    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

    import com.sleepycat.db.DatabaseException;
    import com.sleepycat.db.Environment;
    import com.sleepycat.db.EnvironmentConfig;

    import com.sleepycat.persist.EntityStore;
    import com.sleepycat.persist.StoreConfig;

    public class SimpleStorePut {

        private static File envHome = new File("./JEDB");

        private Environment envmnt;
        private EntityStore store;
        private SimpleDA sda;

Next we create a method that simply opens our database environment and entity store for us.

       // The setup() method opens the environment and store
        // for us.
        public void setup()
            throws DatabaseException {

            EnvironmentConfig envConfig = new EnvironmentConfig();
            StoreConfig storeConfig = new StoreConfig();

            envConfig.setAllowCreate(true);
            storeConfig.setAllowCreate(true);

            try {
                // Open the environment and entity store
                envmnt = new Environment(envHome, envConfig);
                store = new EntityStore(envmnt, "EntityStore", storeConfig);
            } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
                System.err.println("setup(): " + fnfe.toString());
                System.exit(-1);
            }
        }

We also need a method to close our environment and store.

        // Close our environment and store.
        public void shutdown()
            throws DatabaseException {

            store.close();
            envmnt.close();
        }

Now we need to create a method to actually write objects to our store. This method creates a `SimpleDA` object (see SimpleDA.class that we will use to access our indexes. Then we instantiate a serious of `SimpleEntityClass` (see A Simple Entity Class) instances that we will place in our store. Finally, we use our primary index (obtained from the `SimpleDA` class instance) to actually place these objects in our store.

In Retrieving Objects from an Entity Store we show a class that is used to retrieve these objects.

        // Populate the entity store
        private void run()
            throws DatabaseException {

            setup();

            // Open the data accessor. This is used to store
            // persistent objects.
            sda = new SimpleDA(store);

            // Instantiate and store some entity classes
            SimpleEntityClass sec1 = new SimpleEntityClass();
            SimpleEntityClass sec2 = new SimpleEntityClass();
            SimpleEntityClass sec3 = new SimpleEntityClass();
            SimpleEntityClass sec4 = new SimpleEntityClass();
            SimpleEntityClass sec5 = new SimpleEntityClass();

            sec1.setpKey("keyone");
            sec1.setsKey("skeyone");

            sec2.setpKey("keytwo");
            sec2.setsKey("skeyone");

            sec3.setpKey("keythree");
            sec3.setsKey("skeytwo");

            sec4.setpKey("keyfour");
            sec4.setsKey("skeythree");

            sec5.setpKey("keyfive");
            sec5.setsKey("skeyfour");

            sda.pIdx.put(sec1);
            sda.pIdx.put(sec2);
            sda.pIdx.put(sec3);
            sda.pIdx.put(sec4);
            sda.pIdx.put(sec5);

            shutdown();
        }

Finally, to complete our class, we need a `main()` method, which simply calls our `run()` method.

        // main
        public static void main(String args[]) {
            SimpleStorePut ssp = new SimpleStorePut();
            try {
                ssp.run();
            } catch (DatabaseException dbe) {
                System.err.println("SimpleStorePut: " + dbe.toString());
                dbe.printStackTrace();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("Exception: " + e.toString());
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            System.out.println("All done.");
        }

    }

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