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Connect a Java application to OceanBase Database

Last Updated:2023-07-21 09:10:58  Updated
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Connect a Java application to OceanBase Database

OceanBase Database supports connections through the official MySQL JDBC driver.

Prerequisites

  • The Java version on your computer is Java JDK 8 or later.
  • MySQL Connector/J has been installed, and the runtime environment has been configured.

For the download and installation methods, see Connector/J Downloads and Connector/J Installation.

Procedure

The following is an example of connecting a Java application to OceanBase Database in Linux.

Run the following sample code to verify the database connection. If the message true is returned, the database connection is successful.

Note:
If your MySQL Connector/J version is 5.x, replace com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver with com.mysql.jdbc.Driver in Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver").

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class Test {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       try {

            Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();

            try{
                
                Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://172.30.xx.xx:2883/test?user=r***&password=");
                System.out.println(connection.getAutoCommit());
                Statement sm = connection.createStatement();
                //Perform operations such as deleting tables, creating new tables, and inserting data.
                String q1="drop table if exists t_meta_form";
                sm.executeUpdate(q1);
                String q2="CREATE TABLE t_meta_form ( name varchar(36) NOT NULL DEFAULT ' ', id int NOT NULL ) DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4";
                String q3="insert into t_meta_form (name,id) values ('an','1')";
                sm.executeUpdate(q2);
                sm.executeUpdate(q3);                  

            }catch(SQLException se){
                System.out.println("error!");
                se.printStackTrace() ;
            }
            }catch (Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
    }
}

Parameter description

connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://{hostname}:{port}/{dbname}?user={username}&password={password}")
  • hostname: IP address to connect to OceanBase Database, usually the OBProxy address.
  • port: Port to connect to OceanBase Database, also the listening port of OBProxy. The default port is 2883, which can be customized.
  • dbname: Name of the database to be accessed.
  • username: The tenant's connection account, and the tenant's administrator username is root by default.
  • password: Account password.

Example: jdbc:mysql://172.30.xx.xx:2883/test?user=r***&password=***1**

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