DUT Génie Informatique

PROGRAMMATION ORIENTÉE OBJET

Pr. Said BENKIRANE

 Les Exceptions
 Connexion aux Bases de données
Les Exceptions
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Introduction to JDBC

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Road Map
• Introduction to JDBC/JDBC Drivers
• Overview: Six Steps to using JDBC
• Practice Example

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Introduction to JDBC
• JDBC is a simple API for connecting from Java
applications to multiple databases.
• Lets you smoothly translate between the world
of the database, and the world of the Java
application.
• The idea of a universal database access API is
not a new one. For example, Open Database
Connectivity (ODBC) was developed to create a
single standard for database access in the
Windows environment.
• JDBC API aims to be as simple as possible while
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 Understanding JDBC Drivers
• To connect to a database, you first need a
JDBC Driver.
• JDBC Driver: set of classes that interface
with a specific database engine.

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JDBC Drivers
• JDBC drivers exist for every major database
including: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and
MySQL.
• For MySQL, we will be using the open source
MySQL Connector/J.
• http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-
jdbc.html.

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Installing the MySQL Driver
• To use the MySQL Connector/J Driver, you
need to download the complete distribution;
and
• Add the following JAR to your CLASSPATH:
– mysql-connector-java-x.x.x-stable-bin.jar

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Six Steps to Using JDBC
1. Load the JDBC Driver
2. Establish the Database Connection
3. Create a Statement Object
4. Execute a Query
5. Process the Results
6. Close the Connection

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1) Loading the JDBC Driver
• To use a JDBC driver, you must load the driver via the
Class.forName() method.
• In general, the code looks like this:
Class.forName("jdbc.DriverXYZ");
– where jbdc.DriverXYZ is the JDBC Driver you want
to load.
• If you are using a JDBC-ODBC Driver, your code will
look like this:
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOd
bcDriver");
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Loading the MySQL Driver
• If you are using the MySQL Driver, your code will look like this:
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
} catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {

System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
}
• Class.forName() will throw a ClassNotFoundException if
your CLASSPATH is not set up properly.
• Hence, it's a good idea to surround the forName() with a try/catch
block.

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2) Establish the Connection
• Once you have loaded your JDBC driver, the
next step is to establish a database
connection.
• The following line of code illustrates the basic
idea:
Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection(url,
"myLogin", "myPassword");

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Creating a Connection URL
• The only difficulty in establishing a connection is
specifying the correct URL.
• In general, the URL has the following format:
jdbc:subprotocol:subname.
– JDBC indicates that this is a JDBC Connection (no mystery
there!)
– The subprotocol identifies the driver you want to use.
– The subname identifies the database name/location.

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Connection URL: ODBC
• For example, the following code uses a JDBC-
ODBC bridge to connect to the local
database:
– String url = "jdbc:odbc:Fred";
– Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection(url,
“username", "password");

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Connection URL: MySQL
• Here's how you might connect to MySQL:
– String url =
"jdbc:mysql://localhost/webdb";
– Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection(url);
• In this case, we are using the MySQL JDBC Driver to
connect to the webdb database, located on the
localhost machine.
• If this code executes successfully, we will have a
Connection object for communicating directly with the
database.

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3) Create a Statement Object
• The JDBC Statement object sends SQL
statements to the database.
• Statement objects are created from active
Connection objects.
• For example:
– Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
• With a Statement object, you can issue SQL
calls directly to the database.

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4) Execute a Query
• executeQuery()
– Executes the SQL query and returns the data in a table (ResultSet)
– The resulting table may be empty but never null
ResultSet results =
statement.executeQuery("SELECT a, b FROM table");
• executeUpdate()
– Used to execute for INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE SQL statements
– The return is the number of rows that were affected in the database
– Supports Data Definition Language (DDL) statements CREATE TABLE,
DROP TABLE and ALTER TABLE

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Useful Statement Methods
• getMaxRows/setMaxRows
– Determines the number of rows a ResultSet
may contain
– Unless explicitly set, the number of rows are
unlimited (return value of 0)

• getQueryTimeout/setQueryTimeout
– Specifies the amount of a time a driver will wait
for a STATEMENT to complete before throwing a
SQLException

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5) Process the Results
• A ResultSet contains the results of the SQL query.
• Useful Methods
• All methods can throw a SQLException
– close
• Releases the JDBC and database resources
• The result set is automatically closed when the associated
Statement object executes a new query
– getMetaDataObject
• Returns a ResultSetMetaData object containing information
about the columns in the ResultSet

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ResultSet (Continued)
• Useful Methods
– next
• Attempts to move to the next row in the ResultSet
– If successful true is returned; otherwise, false
– The first call to next positions the cursor a the first
row

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ResultSet (Continued)
• Useful Methods
– findColumn
• Returns the corresponding integer value corresponding to the
specified column name
• Column numbers in the result set do not necessarily map to the
same column numbers in the database
– getXxx
• Returns the value from the column specified by column name or
column index as an Xxx Java type
• Returns 0 or null, if the value is a SQL NULL
• Legal getXxx types:

double byte int

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Practice Example

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FIN DE LA PARTIE 3 ET 4
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