JDBC

Java DataBase Connectivity

CSE432 Object Oriented Software Engineering

What is JDBC?

An API that lets you access virtually any tabular data source from the Java programming language

JDBC Data Access API JDBC Technology Homepage

Whats an API? See J2SE documentation Whats a tabular data source? access virtually any data source, from relational databases to spreadsheets and flat files.

JDBC Documentation

Well focus on accessing Oracle databases

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General Architecture

What design pattern is implied in this architecture? What does it buy for us? Why is this architecture also multi-tiered?

Basic steps to use a database in Java

1.Establish a connection 2.Create JDBC Statements 3.Execute SQL Statements 4.GET ResultSet 5.Close connections

1. Establish a connection

import java.sql.*; Load the vendor specific driver

Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");

What do you think this statement does, and how? Dynamically loads a driver class, for Oracle database

Make the connection

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle-prod:1521:OPROD", username, passwd);

What do you think this statement does? Establishes connection to database by obtaining a Connection object
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2. Create JDBC statement(s)

Statement stmt = con.createStatement() ;

Creates a Statement object for sending SQL statements to the database

Executing SQL Statements

String createLehigh = "Create table Lehigh " + "(SSN Integer not null, Name VARCHAR(32), " + "Marks Integer)"; stmt.executeUpdate(createLehigh); //What does this statement do? String insertLehigh = "Insert into Lehigh values + "(123456789,abc,100)"; stmt.executeUpdate(insertLehigh);
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Get ResultSet
String queryLehigh = "select * from Lehigh"; ResultSet rs = Stmt.executeQuery(queryLehigh); //What does this statement do? while (rs.next()) { int ssn = rs.getInt("SSN"); String name = rs.getString("NAME"); int marks = rs.getInt("MARKS"); }

Close connection

stmt.close(); con.close();

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Transactions and JDBC

JDBC allows SQL statements to be grouped together into a single transaction Transaction control is performed by the Connection object, default mode is auto-commit, I.e., each sql statement is treated as a transaction We can turn off the auto-commit mode with con.setAutoCommit(false); And turn it back on with con.setAutoCommit(true); Once auto-commit is off, no SQL statement will be committed until an explicit is invoked con.commit(); At this point all changes done by the SQL statements will be made permanent in the database.

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Handling Errors with Exceptions

Programs should recover and leave the database in a consistent state. If a statement in the try block throws an exception or warning, it can be caught in one of the corresponding catch statements How might a finally {} block be helpful here? E.g., you could rollback your transaction in a catch { } block or close database connection and free database related resources in finally {} block
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Another way to access database (JDBC-ODBC)

Whats a bit different about this architecture?

Why add yet another layer?

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Sample program
import java.sql.*; class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { try { Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"); //dynamic loading of driver String filename = "c:/db1.mdb"; //Location of an Access database String database = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ="; database+= filename.trim() + ";DriverID=22;READONLY=true}"; //add on to end Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection( database ,"",""); Statement s = con.createStatement(); s.execute("create table TEST12345 ( firstcolumn integer )"); s.execute("insert into TEST12345 values(1)"); s.execute("select firstcolumn from TEST12345");

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Sample program(cont)
ResultSet rs = s.getResultSet(); if (rs != null) // if rs == null, then there is no ResultSet to view while ( rs.next() ) // this will step through our data row-by-row { /* the next line will get the first column in our current row's ResultSet as a String ( getString( columnNumber) ) and output it to the screen */ System.out.println("Data from column_name: " + rs.getString(1) ); } s.close(); // close Statement to let the database know we're done with it con.close(); //close connection } catch (Exception err) { System.out.println("ERROR: " + err); } } }

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Mapping types JDBC - Java

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JDBC 2 Scrollable Result Set

Statement stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY); String query = select students from class where type=not sleeping ; ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery( query ); rs.previous(); / / go back in the RS (not possible in JDBC 1) rs.relative(-5); / / go 5 records back rs.relative(7); / / go 7 records forward rs.absolute(100); / / go to 100th record
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JDBC 2 Updateable ResultSet

Statement stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY, ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE); String query = " select students, grade from class where type=really listening this presentation ; ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery( query ); while ( rs.next() ) { int grade = rs.getInt(grade); rs.updateInt(grade, grade+10); rs.updateRow(); }
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Metadata from DB

A Connection's database is able to provide schema information describing its tables, its supported SQL grammar, its stored procedures the capabilities of this connection, and so on

What is a stored procedure? Group of SQL statements that form a logical unit and perform a particular task

This information is made available through a DatabaseMetaData object.

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Metadata from DB - example

Connection con = . ;

DatabaseMetaData dbmd = con.getMetaData();

String catalog = null; String schema = null; String table = sys%; String[ ] types = null; ResultSet rs = dbmd.getTables(catalog , schema , table , types );

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JDBC Metadata from RS

public static void printRS(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException { ResultSetMetaData md = rs.getMetaData(); // get number of columns int nCols = md.getColumnCount(); // print column names for(int i=1; i < nCols; ++i) System.out.print( md.getColumnName( i)+","); / / output resultset while ( rs.next() ) { for(int i=1; i < nCols; ++i) System.out.print( rs.getString( i)+","); System.out.println( rs.getString(nCols) ); } }

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JDBC and beyond

(JNDI) Java Naming and Directory Interface

API for network-wide sharing of information about users, machines, networks, services, and applications Preserves Javas object model Models persistence of objects, using RDBMS as repository Save, load objects from RDBMS Standardized and optimized by Sybase, Oracle and IBM Java extended with directives: # sql SQL routines can invoke Java methods Maps SQL types to Java classes
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(JDO) Java Data Object

(SQLJ) Embedded SQL in Java

JDBC references

JDBC Data Access API JDBC Technology Homepage

http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/index.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/index.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/index.html

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/package-summary.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/GettingStartedTOC.fm.html

JDBC Database Access The Java Tutorial

JDBC Documentation

java.sql package

JDBC Technology Guide: Getting Started

JDBC API Tutorial and Reference (book)

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jdbc/

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JDBC

JDBC Data Access API JDBC Technology Homepage

http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/index.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/index.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/index.html

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/package-summary.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/getstart/GettingStartedTOC.fm.html

JDBC Database Access The Java Tutorial

JDBC Documentation

java.sql package

JDBC Technology Guide: Getting Started

JDBC API Tutorial and Reference (book)

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jdbc/

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