Appendix B. First JDBC Client Example

## Appendix B. First JDBC Client Example

There is a copy of `Testdb.java` in the directory `src/org/hsqldb/sample` of your HSQLDB distribution.

Example B.1. JDBC Client source code example

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    package org.hsqldb.sample;

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

    /**
     * Title:        Testdb
     * Description:  simple hello world db example of a
     *               standalone persistent db application
     *
     *               every time it runs it adds four more rows to sample_table
     *               it does a query and prints the results to standard out
     *
     * Author: Karl Meissner karl@meissnersd.com
     */
    public class Testdb {

        Connection conn;                                                //our connnection to the db - presist for life of program

        // we dont want this garbage collected until we are done
        public Testdb(String db_file_name_prefix) throws Exception {    // note more general exception

            // Load the HSQL Database Engine JDBC driver
            // hsqldb.jar should be in the class path or made part of the current jar
            Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");

            // connect to the database.   This will load the db files and start the
            // database if it is not alread running.
            // db_file_name_prefix is used to open or create files that hold the state
            // of the db.
            // It can contain directory names relative to the
            // current working directory
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hsqldb:"
                                               + db_file_name_prefix,    // filenames
                                               "sa",                     // username
                                               "");                      // password
        }

        public void shutdown() throws SQLException {

            conn.close();    // if there are no other open connection

            // db writes out to files and shuts down
            // this happens anyway at garbage collection
            // when program ends
        }

    //use for SQL command SELECT
        public synchronized void query(String expression) throws SQLException {

            Statement st = null;
            ResultSet rs = null;

            st = conn.createStatement();         // statement objects can be reused with

            // repeated calls to execute but we
            // choose to make a new one each time
            rs = st.executeQuery(expression);    // run the query

            // do something with the result set.
            dump(rs);
            st.close();    // NOTE!! if you close a statement the associated ResultSet is

            // closed too
            // so you should copy the contents to some other object.
            // the result set is invalidated also  if you recycle an Statement
            // and try to execute some other query before the result set has been
            // completely examined.
        }

    //use for SQL commands CREATE, DROP, INSERT and UPDATE
        public synchronized void update(String expression) throws SQLException {

            Statement st = null;

            st = conn.createStatement();    // statements

            int i = st.executeUpdate(expression);    // run the query

            if (i == -1) {
                System.out.println("db error : " + expression);
            }

            st.close();
        }    // void update()

        public static void dump(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {

            // the order of the rows in a cursor
            // are implementation dependent unless you use the SQL ORDER statement
            ResultSetMetaData meta   = rs.getMetaData();
            int               colmax = meta.getColumnCount();
            int               i;
            Object            o = null;

            // the result set is a cursor into the data.  You can only
            // point to one row at a time
            // assume we are pointing to BEFORE the first row
            // rs.next() points to next row and returns true
            // or false if there is no next row, which breaks the loop
            for (; rs.next(); ) {
                for (i = 0; i < colmax; ++i) {
                    o = rs.getObject(i + 1);    // Is SQL the first column is indexed

                    // with 1 not 0
                    System.out.print(o.toString() + " ");
                }

                System.out.println(" ");
            }
        }                                       //void dump( ResultSet rs )

        public static void main(String[] args) {

            Testdb db = null;

            try {
                db = new Testdb("db_file");
            } catch (Exception ex1) {
                ex1.printStackTrace();    // could not start db

                return;                   // bye bye
            }

            try {

                //make an empty table
                //
                // by declaring the id column IDENTITY, the db will automatically
                // generate unique values for new rows- useful for row keys
                db.update(
                    "CREATE TABLE sample_table ( id INTEGER IDENTITY, str_col VARCHAR(256), num_col INTEGER)");
            } catch (SQLException ex2) {

                //ignore
                //ex2.printStackTrace();  // second time we run program
                //  should throw execption since table
                // already there
                //
                // this will have no effect on the db
            }

            try {

                // add some rows - will create duplicates if run more then once
                // the id column is automatically generated
                db.update(
                    "INSERT INTO sample_table(str_col,num_col) VALUES('Ford', 100)");
                db.update(
                    "INSERT INTO sample_table(str_col,num_col) VALUES('Toyota', 200)");
                db.update(
                    "INSERT INTO sample_table(str_col,num_col) VALUES('Honda', 300)");
                db.update(
                    "INSERT INTO sample_table(str_col,num_col) VALUES('GM', 400)");

                // do a query
                db.query("SELECT * FROM sample_table WHERE num_col < 250");

                // at end of program
                db.shutdown();
            } catch (SQLException ex3) {
                ex3.printStackTrace();
            }
        }    // main()
    }    // class Testdb

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