How do I retrieve auto-generated keys?

By Wayan in JDBC 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.jdbc;

import java.sql.*;

public class GetGeneratedKeyExample {
    private static final String URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/kodejava";
    private static final String USERNAME = "root";
    private static final String PASSWORD = "";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try (Connection connection =
                     DriverManager.getConnection(URL, USERNAME, PASSWORD)) {

            // The orders table have an ID column which value will be auto
            // generated by database. When inserting a new record a new id
            // for the primary key will be generated, and we will get the
            // generated key, so we can use it in another process. For
            // instance if we have a master detail tables where the details
            // table required an id from the master table.
            String sql = "INSERT INTO purchase_order (username, order_date) " +
                    "VALUES ('foobar', '2021-09-25')";
            Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();

            // When executing the statement we can pass the
            // Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS so that we can later extract
            // the generated key from the result set object returned by
            // this method.
            stmt.executeUpdate(sql, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);

            ResultSet keys = stmt.getGeneratedKeys();
            int lastKey = 1;
            while (keys.next()) {
                lastKey = keys.getInt(1);
            }

            System.out.println("Last Key: " + lastKey);
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

The structure of purchase_order table.

CREATE TABLE `purchase_order` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `username` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `order_date` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

Maven dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.mysql</groupId>
    <artifactId>mysql-connector-j</artifactId>
    <version>8.0.32</version>
</dependency>

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