NextReports: add your JDBC driver

Starting from version 6.2 NextReports will allow users to add their own JDBC drivers. We are using Vertica JDBC driver here as example. In version 6.2 Vertica driver will be added by default.

Such process can be resumed by following steps :

1. JDBC jar driver is added inside lib folder (designer and server). From 7.0, designer has a jdbc-drivers folder.

2. Driver must be added in driver_templates.xml which can be found :

• inside designer in installation folder in \lib\nextreports-designer-6.1.jar 
• inside server in installation folder in \webapps\nextserver\WEB-INF\classes 

    Vertica
    com.vertica.jdbc.Driver
    jdbc:vertica://<server>:<port>/<database>
    5433    
 

3. You need to create a Dialect class for that type of driver. This dialect does a mapping between database types and java sql types and has some utilities methods.

import java.sql.Types;
import ro.nextreports.engine.util.ProcUtil;

public class VerticaDialect extends AbstractDialect {

    public VerticaDialect() {
     super();
     registerColumnType("binary", Types.BLOB);
     registerColumnType("varbinary", Types.BLOB);
     registerColumnType("bytea", Types.BLOB);
     registerColumnType("raw", Types.BLOB);
     registerColumnType("boolean", Types.BOOLEAN);
     registerColumnType("char", Types.CHAR);
        registerColumnType("varchar", Types.VARCHAR);
        registerColumnType("date", Types.DATE);
        registerColumnType("timestamp", Types.TIMESTAMP);
        registerColumnType("timestamp with timezone", Types.TIMESTAMP);
        registerColumnType("datetime", Types.TIMESTAMP);
        registerColumnType("smalldatetime", Types.TIMESTAMP);
        registerColumnType("double precision", Types.DOUBLE);
        registerColumnType("float", Types.FLOAT);
        registerColumnType("float8", Types.FLOAT);
        registerColumnType("real", Types.DOUBLE);        
        registerColumnType("bigint", Types.BIGINT);
        registerColumnType("smallint", Types.SMALLINT);
        registerColumnType("integer", Types.INTEGER);
        registerColumnType("int", Types.INTEGER);
        registerColumnType("tinyint", Types.INTEGER);
        registerColumnType("int8", Types.INTEGER);
        registerColumnType("decimal", Types.INTEGER);                
        registerColumnType("numeric", Types.NUMERIC);
        registerColumnType("number", Types.NUMERIC);
        registerColumnType("money", Types.NUMERIC);
        registerColumnType("time", Types.TIME);
        registerColumnType("time with timezone", Types.TIME);   
        registerColumnType("interval", Types.TIME);
    }

    public String getCurrentDate() throws DialectException {
        return "current_date";
    }
    
    public String getCurrentTimestamp() throws DialectException {
     return "current_timestamp";
    }
    
    public String getCurrentTime() throws DialectException {
     return "current_time";
    }

    public String getCurrentDateSelect() {
        return "select current_date";
    }

    public String getRecycleBinTablePrefix() {
        return null;
    }

    public String getCursorSqlTypeName() {
        return ProcUtil.REF_CURSOR;
    }

    public int getCursorSqlType() {
        return Types.OTHER;
    }

    public String getSqlChecker() {
        return "select 1";
    }
}

4. You must register the dialect in NextReports. To make this happen in designer and server you have to add some java VM parameters. (nextreports.vmoptions  file from designer and start-nextserver.vmoptions from server)

-Dnext.dialect.database_1="Vertica Database" 
-Dnext.dialect.class_1="mypackage.VerticaDialect"

First parameter must be the name taken from DataBaseMetaData.getDatabaseProductName().

If you need to register more dialects, you use different suffix indexes.