Connecting Through a Specific Driver

Apache OpenOffice Developer's Guide

Database Access

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• Architecture
• Example: Querying the Bibliography Database

• Data Sources in Apache OpenOffice API

• DataSources

• The DataSource Service
• Queries

• Adding and Editing Predefined Queries
• Runtime Settings For Predefined Queries
• The SingleSelectQueryComposer
• The SQLQueryComposer

• Forms and Reports
• Document Links
• Tables and Columns

• Connections

• Connecting Through a DataSource
• Connecting Using the DriverManager and a Database URL
• Connecting Through a Specific Driver
• Driver Specifics

• The SDBC Driver for JDBC
• The SDBC Driver for ODBC
• The SDBC Driver for Adabas D
• The SDBC Driver for ADO
• The SDBC Driver for dBase
• The SDBC Driver for Flat File Formats
• The SDBC Driver for Apache OpenOffice Calc Files
• The SDBC Driver for address books
• The SDBC Driver for embedded HSQL databases

• Connection Pooling
• Piggyback Connections

• Manipulating the Data

• The RowSet Service

• Usage
• Events and Other Notifications
• Clones of the RowSet Service

• Statements

• Creating Statements
• Inserting and Updating Data
• Getting Data from a Table

• Result Sets

• Retrieving Values from Result Sets
• Moving the Result Set Cursor
• Using the getXXX Methods
• Scrollable Result Sets
• Modifiable Result Sets
• Update
• Insert
• Delete
• Seeing Changes in Result Sets

• ResultSetMetaData
• Using Prepared Statements
• PreparedStatement From DataSource Queries

• Database Design

• Using DDL to Change the Database Design
• Using SDBCX to Access the Database Design

• Catalog Service
• Table Service
• Column Service
• Index Service
• Key Service
• View Service
• Group Service
• User Service
• The Descriptor Pattern
• Adding an Index
• Creating a User
• Adding a Group

• Using DBMS Features

• Stored Procedures

• Writing Database Drivers

• SDBC Driver
• Driver Service
• Connection Service
• XDatabaseMetaData Interface
• Statements
• Support Scalar Functions

• Open Group CLI Numeric Functions
• Open Group CLI String Functions
• Open Group CLI Time and Date Functions
• Open Group CLI System Functions
• Open Group CLI Conversion Functions

• Handling Unsupported Functionality
• Extending Database Drivers

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The second method to create an independent, data-source connection is to use a particular driver implementation, such as writing a driver. There are also several implementations. Create an instance of the driver and ask it for a connection to decide what driver is used:

 // create the Driver using the implementation name
 Object aDriver = xMultiServiceFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.comp.sdbcx.adabas.ODriver");
 
 // query for the XDriver interface
 com.sun.star.sdbc.XDriver xDriver;
 xDriver = (XDriver)UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XDriver.class, aDriver);
 
 if (xDriver != null) {
     // first create the needed url
     String adabasURL = "sdbc:adabas::MYDB0";
     
     // second create the necessary properties
     com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue [] adabasProps = new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue[] {
         new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue("user", 0, "test1",
             com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState.DIRECT_VALUE),
         new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue("password", 0, "test1",
             com.sun.star.beans.PropertyState.DIRECT_VALUE)
     };
 
     // now create a connection to adabas
     XConnection adabasConnection = xDriver.connect(adabasURL,adabasProps);
     
     if (xConnection != null) {
         System.out.println("Connection was created!");
         // now we dispose the connection to close it
         XComponent xComponent = (XComponent)UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XComponent.class, xConnection);
         if (xComponent != null) {
             xComponent.dispose();
             System.out.println("Connection disposed!");
         }
     } else {
         System.out.println("Connection could not be created!");
     }
 }

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