Implementing a FIFO Export Queue in Spring Boot for Large Data Exports

In response to increasing database size and the performance impact of simultaneous full‑data exports, a FIFO export queue with a fixed capacity is introduced to serialize export tasks.

The business model defines three entities: ExportQueue (maintains a bounded queue of ExportUser objects), User information, and Export class (provides asynchronous export methods and file handling).

ExportQueue implementation (Spring Boot)

package com.example.system.config;

import com.example.system.api.domain.ExportUser;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import java.util.LinkedList;

@Slf4j
@Component
public class ExportQueue {
    private final int MAX_CAPACITY = 10; // queue max size
    private LinkedList
queue;

    public ExportQueue(LinkedList
queue) {
        this.queue = new LinkedList<>();
    }

    /** add user to queue */
    public synchronized LinkedList
add(ExportUser sysUser) {
        while (queue.size() >= MAX_CAPACITY) {
            try {
                log.info("当前排队人已满，请等待");
                wait();
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.getMessage();
            }
        }
        queue.add(sysUser);
        log.info("目前导出队列排队人数：" + queue.size());
        notifyAll();
        return queue;
    }

    /** get next user from queue */
    public synchronized ExportUser getNextSysUser() {
        while (queue.isEmpty()) {
            try {
                wait();
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        ExportUser sysUser = queue.remove();
        notifyAll(); // wake up waiting threads
        return sysUser;
    }
}

AbstractExport (EasyExcel integration)

package com.example.system.config;

import cn.hutool.core.bean.BeanUtil;
import cn.hutool.core.util.PageUtil;
import com.alibaba.excel.EasyExcel;
import com.alibaba.excel.ExcelWriter;
import com.alibaba.excel.write.metadata.WriteSheet;
import com.example.system.api.domain.ExportUser;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.List;

@Slf4j
public abstract class AbstractExport
{

    public abstract void export(ExportUser sysUser) throws InterruptedException;

    /** export with pagination */
    public void export(HttpServletResponse response, int pageSize, T t, Class
k, String fileName) throws Exception {
        ExcelWriter writer = null;
        try {
            writer = getExcelWriter(response, fileName);
            int total = this.countExport(t);
            int loopCount = PageUtil.totalPage(total, pageSize);
            BeanUtil.setProperty(t, "pageSize", pageSize);
            for (int i = 0; i < loopCount; i++) {
                BeanUtil.setProperty(t, "pageNum", PageUtil.getStart(i + 1, pageSize));
                List
kList = this.getExportDetail(t);
                WriteSheet writeSheet = EasyExcel.writerSheet(fileName).head(k).build();
                writer.write(kList, writeSheet);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            String msg = "导出" + fileName + "异常";
            log.error(msg, e);
            throw new Exception(msg + e);
        } finally {
            if (writer != null) {
                writer.finish();
            }
        }
    }

    public ExcelWriter getExcelWriter(HttpServletResponse response, String fileName) throws IOException {
        response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
        response.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
        String fileNameUtf = URLEncoder.encode(fileName, "UTF-8").replaceAll("\\+", "%20");
        response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment;filename*=utf-8''" + fileNameUtf + ".xlsx");
        return EasyExcel.write(response.getOutputStream()).build();
    }

    /** template export */
    public abstract void complexFillWithTable(T t, String fileName, HttpServletResponse response);

    public abstract int countExport(T t);

    public abstract List
getExportDetail(T t);
}

ExportImpl (concrete service)

package com.example.system.service.impl;

import com.alibaba.excel.ExcelWriter;
import com.example.system.api.domain.ExportUser;
import com.example.system.config.AbstractExport;
import com.example.system.config.ExportQueue;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

@Service
@Slf4j
public class ExportImpl extends AbstractExport {

    @Autowired
    private ExportQueue exportQueue;

    @Override
    public void export(ExportUser sysUser) throws InterruptedException {
        log.info("导出文件方法执行～～～～～～～～～");
        LinkedList
queue = exportQueue.add(sysUser);
        log.info("导出队列：" + queue);
        Thread.sleep(20000); // simulate export processing time
        ExportUser nextSysUser = exportQueue.getNextSysUser();
        log.info("移除后获取下一个排队的用户: " + nextSysUser.getUserName());
    }

    @Override
    public void export(HttpServletResponse response, int pageSize, Object o, Class k, String fileName) throws Exception {
        super.export(response, pageSize, o, k, fileName);
    }

    @Override
    public ExcelWriter getExcelWriter(HttpServletResponse response, String fileName) throws IOException {
        return super.getExcelWriter(response, fileName);
    }

    @Override
    public void complexFillWithTable(Object o, String fileName, HttpServletResponse response) {
        // not implemented
    }

    @Override
    public int countExport(Object o) {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public List getExportDetail(Object o) {
        return null;
    }
}

ExportController (test endpoint)

package com.example.system.controller;

import com.example.system.api.domain.ExportUser;
import com.example.system.service.impl.ExportImpl;
import lombok.SneakyThrows;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/export")
@Slf4j
public class ExportController {

    @Autowired
    private ExportImpl export;

    @PostMapping("/exportFile")
    public void exportFile() {
        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @SneakyThrows
            @Override
            public void run() {
                Thread thread1 = Thread.currentThread();
                ExportUser sysUser = new ExportUser();
                sysUser.setUserName(thread1.getName());
                export.export(sysUser);
            }
        }).start();
    }
}

The test results show that when the queue reaches its maximum capacity of ten, additional export requests are blocked until a slot becomes free; successive requests spaced ten seconds apart demonstrate users being dequeued and processed in order.

Future work includes implementing file‑metadata storage, OSS upload, download endpoints, and evaluating high‑concurrency scenarios (e.g., using Redis queues) to ensure robustness.