[11:09:48 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> TonyUnicon here is the section of the SpringBatch reference docs i was talking about w/r/t error granularity
[11:09:51 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> http://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/reference/html-single/index.html#databaseItemWriters
[11:10:57 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> what i'd like to do is preserve the ability to report very fine-grained validation errors and the flexibility to aggressively batch inserts to the staging tables for performance (using JdbcBatchItemWriter perhaps)
[11:12:18 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> because of that, we can't rely exclusively on db inserts to check the validity of inbound flat file records
[11:12:59 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> that's not to say all inserts are guaranteed to succeed, but the idea is to catch as many fine-grained errors as early and as cheaply as possible using in memory validations
[11:15:35 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> js70… for db metadata… http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/DatabaseMetaData.html#getColumns(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) and http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/DatabaseMetaData.html#getPrimaryKeys(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
[11:18:17 CST(-0600)] <TonyUnicon> reading now
[11:23:45 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> key non-uniqueness is one example of an invalidity that's not going to be easily detectable until inserts. in that case we're going to need to accept that the error granularity will be unfortunately coarse
[11:24:03 CST(-0600)] <js70> yep
[11:24:25 CST(-0600)] <dmccallum54> unless we require you to deploy on unix and we just call out to the shell… then it's trivial 
[11:25:34 CST(-0600)] <TonyUnicon> so
[11:25:45 CST(-0600)] <TonyUnicon> im fine wish using the in memory approach btw
[11:25:55 CST(-0600)] <TonyUnicon> but I think what the doc itself is saying
[11:26:04 CST(-0600)] <TonyUnicon> there is no way for the framework to know which one failed