Thread: newbie: retep wants to have username?

newbie: retep wants to have username?

From

Mirko Zeibig

Date:

16 February 2001, 14:01:10

Hello everybody,

I am not that deep in Java, just playing a bit with it, using PG7.1beta from
CVS on RedHat 7.0. Going to contrib/retep/jars I tried:

[mirko@romulan jars]$ java -cp ./retepTools.jar \
uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport \
-Dorg.postgresql.Driver \
-Jjdbc:postgresql:mirko/mirko
Now using JDBC Driver: org.postgresql.Driver
The user property is missing. It is mandatory.
        at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:84)
        at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:35)
        at java.sql.SQLException.<init>(SQLException.java:100)
        at org.postgresql.util.PSQLException.<init>(PSQLException.java:23)
        at org.postgresql.Connection.openConnection(Connection.java:115)
        at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:118)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:523)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:205)
        at uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport.<init>(XMLExport.java:55)
        at uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport.main(XMLExport.java:186)
[mirko@romulan jars]$

to get a dump of the database. It is a bit of a pity that examples exposed
when invoked without parameters are all about oracle :-).

I tried jdbc:postgresql:mirko/mirko@localhost for -J as well, same result. I
do not see where the jdbc-url is parsed, I guess somewhere in the
pgsql-driver? Is it possible to use a url with user/db@host with PostgreSQL
at all?

I studied the jdbc-interface documentation and did not see this syntax
mentioned anywhere.

Best Regards
Mirko
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mirko@picard.inka.de
http://sites.inka.de/picard/

Re: newbie: retep wants to have username?

From

Peter T Mount

Date:

16 February 2001, 14:17:50

Quoting Mirko Zeibig <mirko@picard.inka.de>:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I am not that deep in Java, just playing a bit with it, using PG7.1beta
> from
> CVS on RedHat 7.0. Going to contrib/retep/jars I tried:
>
> [mirko@romulan jars]$ java -cp ./retepTools.jar \
> uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport \
> -Dorg.postgresql.Driver \
> -Jjdbc:postgresql:mirko/mirko
> Now using JDBC Driver: org.postgresql.Driver
> The user property is missing. It is mandatory.

Yes, its asking for the postgresql username.

There's three ways of supplying it.

1: use: .getConnection(url,user,password);
2: use: .getConnection(url) with user/password in the url
3: use: .getConnection(url,props) where props is a Properties with the
user/password in it.

for 2 use: jdbc:postgresql:db?user=PETER&password=SECRET

for 3 have properties called user & password

(internally the driver converts them into Properties anyhow ;-) )

> to get a dump of the database. It is a bit of a pity that examples
> exposed when invoked without parameters are all about oracle :-).

Oracle can be a bit lax with security at times ;-)

> I tried jdbc:postgresql:mirko/mirko@localhost for -J as well, same

Nope. There is no actual url standard (other than jdbc:subprotocol:).

Try: jdbc:postgresql:mirko?user=mirko (localhost is optional or)
     jdbc:postgresql://localhost/mirko?user=mirko

> result. I
> do not see where the jdbc-url is parsed, I guess somewhere in the
> pgsql-driver? Is it possible to use a url with user/db@host with
> PostgreSQL
> at all?
>
> I studied the jdbc-interface documentation and did not see this syntax
> mentioned anywhere.

Doesn't exist ;-)

Peter

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Peter Mount peter@retep.org.uk
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/
RetepPDF PDF library for Java: http://www.retep.org.uk/pdf/

Re: newbie: retep wants to have username?

From

Mirko Zeibig

Date:

16 February 2001, 18:48:57

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:11:58AM -0500, Peter T Mount wrote:
> Quoting Mirko Zeibig <mirko@picard.inka.de>:
> > The user property is missing. It is mandatory.
>
> Yes, its asking for the postgresql username.
>
> There's three ways of supplying it.
>
> 1: use: .getConnection(url,user,password);
> 2: use: .getConnection(url) with user/password in the url
> 3: use: .getConnection(url,props) where props is a Properties with the
> user/password in it.
>
> for 2 use: jdbc:postgresql:db?user=PETER&password=SECRET
>
> for 3 have properties called user & password
>

Thanks a lot! Now I get a connect to the database, but XMLExport is
choking with an error:

[mirko@romulan jars]$ java -cp ./retepTools.jar \
uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport -Dorg.postgresql.Driver \
-J"jdbc:postgresql:mirko?user=mirko&password=XXXXX" -S
Now using JDBC Driver: org.postgresql.Driver
Opened jdbc:postgresql:mirko?user=mirko&password=XXXXX
Generating XML Schema of database
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.DatabaseMetaData.getTables(DatabaseMetaData.java:1707)
        at
uk.org.retep.xml.jdbc.XMLDatabase.writeDatabase(XMLDatabase.java:222)
        at
uk.org.retep.xml.jdbc.XMLDatabase.writeDatabase(XMLDatabase.java:188)
        at uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport.<init>(XMLExport.java:83)
        at uk.org.retep.xml.test.XMLExport.main(XMLExport.java:186)
[mirko@romulan jars]$

If you need more information I am happy to send a more complete transcript
with -verbose enabled.


> >
> > I studied the jdbc-interface documentation and did not see this syntax
> > mentioned anywhere.
>
> Doesn't exist ;-)

Maybe this syntax should be documented anywhere? I knew about 1: but have
not seen 2: or 3: :-).

Best Regards
Mirko
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mirko@picard.inka.de
http://sites.inka.de/picard/