The Async MySQL / PostgreSQL Client is responsible for providing an interface for Vert.x applications that need to interact with a MySQL or PostgreSQL database.
It uses Mauricio Linhares async driver to interact with the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases in a non blocking way.
This section describes how to configure your project to be able to use the MySQL / PostgreSQL client in your application.
To use this client, you need to add the following jar to your CLASSPATH
:
-
vertx-mysql-postgresql-client 3.5.0-SNAPSHOT (the client)
-
scala-library 2.11.4
-
the postgress-async-2.11 and mysdql-async-2.11 from https://github.com/mauricio/postgresql-async
-
joda time
All these jars are downloadable from Maven Central.
If you are building a Fat-jar using Maven or Gradle, just add the following dependencies:
-
Maven (in your
pom.xml
):
<dependency>
<groupId>io.vertx</groupId>
<artifactId>vertx-mysql-postgresql-client</artifactId>
<version>3.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
-
Gradle (in your
build.gradle
file):
compile 'io.vertx:vertx-mysql-postgresql-client:3.5.0-SNAPSHOT'
If you are using a vert.x distribution, add the jar files listed above to the $VERTX_HOME/lib
directory.
Alternatively, you can edit the vertx-stack.json
file located in $VERTX_HOME
, and set "included": true
for the vertx-mysql-postgresql-client
dependency. Once done, launch: vertx resolve --dir=lib --stack=
./vertx-stack.json
. It downloads the client and its dependencies.
There are several ways to create a client. Let’s go through them all.
In most cases you will want to share a pool between different client instances.
E.g. you scale your application by deploying multiple instances of your verticle and you want each verticle instance to share the same pool so you don’t end up with multiple pools
You do this as follows:
var MySQLClient = require("vertx-mysql-postgresql-js/my_sql_client");
var PostgreSQLClient = require("vertx-mysql-postgresql-js/postgre_sql_client");
// To create a MySQL client:
var mySQLClientConfig = {
"host" : "mymysqldb.mycompany"
};
var mySQLClient = MySQLClient.createShared(vertx, mySQLClientConfig);
// To create a PostgreSQL client:
var postgreSQLClientConfig = {
"host" : "mypostgresqldb.mycompany"
};
var postgreSQLClient = PostgreSQLClient.createShared(vertx, postgreSQLClientConfig);
The first call to MySQLClient.createShared
or PostgreSQLClient.createShared
will actually create the data source, and the specified config will be used.
Subsequent calls will return a new client instance that uses the same data source, so the configuration won’t be used.
You can create a client specifying a pool name as follows
var MySQLClient = require("vertx-mysql-postgresql-js/my_sql_client");
var PostgreSQLClient = require("vertx-mysql-postgresql-js/postgre_sql_client");
// To create a MySQL client:
var mySQLClientConfig = {
"host" : "mymysqldb.mycompany"
};
var mySQLClient = MySQLClient.createShared(vertx, mySQLClientConfig, "MySQLPool1");
// To create a PostgreSQL client:
var postgreSQLClientConfig = {
"host" : "mypostgresqldb.mycompany"
};
var postgreSQLClient = PostgreSQLClient.createShared(vertx, postgreSQLClientConfig, "PostgreSQLPool1");
If different clients are created using the same Vert.x instance and specifying the same pool name, they will share the same data source.
The first call to MySQLClient.createShared
or PostgreSQLClient.createShared
will actually create the data source, and the specified config will be used.
Subsequent calls will return a new client instance that uses the same pool, so the configuration won’t be used.
Use this way of creating if you wish different groups of clients to have different pools, e.g. they’re interacting with different databases.
In most cases you will want to share a pool between different client instances. However, it’s possible you want to create a client instance that doesn’t share its pool with any other client.
In that case you can use MySQLClient.createNonShared
or PostgreSQLClient.createNonShared
var MySQLClient = require("vertx-mysql-postgresql-js/my_sql_client");
var PostgreSQLClient = require("vertx-mysql-postgresql-js/postgre_sql_client");
// To create a MySQL client:
var mySQLClientConfig = {
"host" : "mymysqldb.mycompany"
};
var mySQLClient = MySQLClient.createNonShared(vertx, mySQLClientConfig);
// To create a PostgreSQL client:
var postgreSQLClientConfig = {
"host" : "mypostgresqldb.mycompany"
};
var postgreSQLClient = PostgreSQLClient.createNonShared(vertx, postgreSQLClientConfig);
This is equivalent to calling MySQLClient.createShared
or PostgreSQLClient.createShared
with a unique pool name each time.
Use getConnection
to get a connection.
This will return the connection in the handler when one is ready from the pool.
// Now do stuff with it:
client.getConnection(function (res, res_err) {
if (res_err == null) {
var connection = res;
// Got a connection
} else {
// Failed to get connection - deal with it
}
});
Once you’ve finished with the connection make sure you close it afterwards.
The connection is an instance of SQLConnection
which is a common interface used by
other SQL clients.
You can learn how to use it in the common sql interface documentation.
Whenever you get dates back from the database, this service will implicitly convert them into ISO 8601
(yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSS
) formatted strings. MySQL usually discards milliseconds, so you will regularly see .000
.
When inserting new rows into a table, you might want to retrieve auto-incremented ids from the database. The JDBC API
usually lets you retrieve the last inserted id from a connection. If you use MySQL, it will work the way it does like
the JDBC API. In PostgreSQL you can add the
"RETURNING" clause to get the latest inserted ids. Use
one of the query
methods to get access to the returned columns.
Both the PostgreSql and MySql clients take the same configuration:
{ "host" : <your-host>, "port" : <your-port>, "maxPoolSize" : <maximum-number-of-open-connections>, "username" : <your-username>, "password" : <your-password>, "database" : <name-of-your-database>, "charset" : <name-of-the-character-set>, "queryTimeout" : <timeout-in-milliseconds> }
host
-
The host of the database. Defaults to
localhost
. port
-
The port of the database. Defaults to
5432
for PostgreSQL and3306
for MySQL. maxPoolSize
-
The number of connections that may be kept open. Defaults to
10
. username
-
The username to connect to the database. Defaults to
postgres
for PostgreSQL androot
for MySQL. password
-
The password to connect to the database. Default is not set, i.e. it uses no password.
database
-
The name of the database you want to connect to. Defaults to
testdb
. charset
-
The name of the character set you want to use for the connection. Defaults to
UTF-8
. queryTimeout
-
The timeout to wait for a query in milliseconds. Defaults to
10000
(= 10 seconds).