In the official reference document, it says:

The main function of an inbound Channel Adapter is to execute a SQL SELECT query and turn the result set as a message. The message payload is the whole result set, expressed as a List, and the types of the items in the list depend on the row-mapping strategy that is used. The default strategy is a generic mapper that just returns a Map for each row in the query result.

• Source code

  public class Application {
     static class Book {
        String title;
        double price;
  
        Book(String title, double price) {
            this.title = title;
            this.price = price;
        }
  
        double getPrice() {
            return price;
        }
  
        String getTitle() {
            return title;
        }
  
        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return String.format("{title: %s, price: %s}", title, price);
        }
      }
  
      static class Consumer {
        public void consume(List<Book> books) {
            books.stream().forEach(System.out::println);
        }
      }
  
      static class BookRowMapper implements RowMapper<Book> {
  
        @Override
        public Book mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum) throws SQLException {
            String title = rs.getString("TITLE");
            double price = rs.getDouble("PRICE");
            return new Book(title, price);
        }
      }
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
        new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                "classpath:spring/integration/stackoverflow/jdbc/jdbc.xml");
      }
  }
  

• xml configuration file

  <?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:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
         xmlns:int="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
         xmlns:int-jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/jdbc"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/jdbc/spring-integration-jdbc.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd">
      <jdbc:embedded-database id="dataSource" type="H2">
          <jdbc:script location="classpath:spring/integration/stackoverflow/jdbc/schema.sql"/>
      </jdbc:embedded-database>
      <bean id="bookRowMapper"
            class="spring.integration.stackoverflow.jdbc.Application$BookRowMapper"/>
  
      <int:channel id="channel"/>
  
      <int-jdbc:inbound-channel-adapter id="jdbcInbound"
                                        channel="channel"
                                        data-source="dataSource"
                                        query="SELECT * FROM BOOKS"
                                        row-mapper="bookRowMapper">
          <int:poller fixed-rate="1000"/>
      </int-jdbc:inbound-channel-adapter>
  
      <int:outbound-channel-adapter id="outbound" channel="channel" method="consume">
          <bean class="spring.integration.stackoverflow.jdbc.Application$Consumer"/>
      </int:outbound-channel-adapter>
  </beans>
  

• schema.sql

  CREATE TABLE BOOKS (
    TITLE VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    PRICE DOUBLE      NOT NULL
  );
  
  INSERT INTO BOOKS(TITLE, PRICE) VALUES('book1', 10);
  INSERT INTO BOOKS(TITLE, PRICE) VALUES('book2', 20);
  

• Summary:

  • jdbcInbound: a Jdbc inbound channel adapter. It execute the SQL SELECT * FROM BOOKS and convert the result set to List<Book> via the bean bookRowMapper. Finally, it send this book list to the channel channel.
  • channel: transfer the message
  • outbound: a generic outbound adapter. see Generic Inbound and Outbound Channel Adapter

In the Spring Integration Reference Docuement, it says:

The outbound Channel Adapter is the inverse of the inbound: its role is to handle a message and use it to execute a SQL query. The message payload and headers are available by default as input parameters to the query...

• Java code

  public class OutboundApplication {
      static class Book {
          String title;
          double price;
  
          Book(String title, double price) {
              this.title = title;
              this.price = price;
          }
  
          public double getPrice() {
              return price;
          }
  
          public String getTitle() {
              return title;
          }
  
      }
  
      static class Producer {
          public Book produce() {
              return IntStream.range(0, 3)
                      .mapToObj(i -> new Book("book" + i, i * 10))
                      .collect(Collectors.toList())
                      .get(new Random().nextInt(3));
          }
      }
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                  "classpath:spring/integration/stackoverflow/jdbc/jdbc-outbound.xml");
      }
  }
  

• xml config file

  <?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:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
         xmlns:int="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration"
         xmlns:int-jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/jdbc"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/spring-integration.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/jdbc
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/integration/jdbc/spring-integration-jdbc.xsd">
      <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
          <property name="url" value="jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/~/booksystem"/>
          <property name="username" value="sa"/>
          <property name="password" value=""/>
          <property name="driverClassName" value="org.h2.Driver"/>
      </bean>
      <jdbc:initialize-database>
          <jdbc:script location="classpath:spring/integration/stackoverflow/jdbc/schema.sql"/>
      </jdbc:initialize-database>
      <int:channel id="channel"/>
      <int:inbound-channel-adapter channel="channel" method="produce" >
          <bean class="spring.integration.stackoverflow.jdbc.OutboundApplication$Producer"/>
          <int:poller fixed-rate="1000"/>
      </int:inbound-channel-adapter>
      <int-jdbc:outbound-channel-adapter id="jdbcOutbound"
                                         channel="channel"
                                         data-source="dataSource"
                                         sql-parameter-source-factory="sqlParameterSource"
                                         query="INSERT INTO BOOKS(TITLE, PRICE) VALUES(:title, :price)"/>
      <bean id="sqlParameterSource"   class="org.springframework.integration.jdbc.ExpressionEvaluatingSqlParameterSourceFactory">
          <property name="parameterExpressions">
              <map>
                  <entry key="title" value="payload.title"/>
                  <entry key="price" value="payload.price"/>
              </map>
          </property>
      </bean>
  </beans>
  

• schema.sql

  DROP TABLE IF EXISTS BOOKS;
  CREATE TABLE BOOKS (
    TITLE VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    PRICE DOUBLE      NOT NULL
  );
  

• You can observe the BOOKS table, and you can see the records are inserted. Or you can write a int-jdbc:inbound-channel-adapter to count the BOOKS table and you can find that the count number is growing continuously.

• Summary:

  • inbound: a generic inbound adapter used to get the Book object as message payload and send it to channel channel.
  • channel: used to transfer message.
  • jdbcOutbound: a jdbc outbound adapter, it receives the message with Book type and then prepare the query parameter :title and :price via sqlParameterSource bean using SpEL like payload.title and payload.price to get the title and price form the message payload.