Install

You can get and install JayDeBeApi with easy_install

$ easy_install JayDeBeApi

If you want to install JayDeBeApi in Jython make sure to have EasyInstall available for it.

Or you can get a copy of the source branch using bzr by running

$ bzr branch lp:jaydebeapi

and install it with

$ python setup.py install

or if you are using Jython use

$ jython setup.py install

It has been tested with Jython 2.5.2.

If you are using cPython ensure that you have installed JPype properly. It has been tested with JPype 0.5.4.

Usage

Basically you just import the jaydebeapi Python module and execute the connect method. This gives you a DB-API conform connection to the database.

The first argument to connect is the name of the Java driver class. The rest of the arguments are internally passed to the Java DriverManager.getConnection method. See the Javadoc of DriverManager class for details.

Here is an example:

>>> import jaydebeapi
>>> conn = jaydebeapi.connect('org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver',
...                           'jdbc:hsqldb:mem', 'SA', '')
>>> curs = conn.cursor()
>>> curs.execute('create table CUSTOMER'
...                '("CUST_ID" INTEGER not null,'
...                ' "NAME" VARCHAR not null,'
...                ' primary key ("CUST_ID"))'
...             )
>>> curs.execute("insert into CUSTOMER values (1, 'John')")
>>> curs.execute("select * from CUSTOMER")
>>> curs.fetchall()
[(1, u'John')]

You probably have to configure Jython or JPype to actually be able to access the database driver's jar files. If I want to connect to a HSQL in memory database on my Ubuntu machine I'm starting Python by running

$ JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk python

Now I have to configure JPype

>>> import jpype
>>> jar = r'/path/to/my/driver/hsqldb.jar'
>>> args='-Djava.class.path=%s' % jar
>>> jvm_path = jpype.getDefaultJVMPath()
>>> jpype.startJVM(jvm_path, args)

or in Jython I have to

>>> jar = '/path/to/my/driver/hsqldb.jar'
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append(jar)

Supported databases

In theory every database with a suitable JDBC driver should work. It is known to work with the following databases:

Contributing

Please submit bugs and patches. All contributors will be acknowledged. Thanks!

License

JayDeBeApi is released under the GNU Lesser General Public license (LGPL). See the file COPYING and COPYING.LESSER in the distribution for details.

Changelog

• 0.1.3
  • Fixed DB-API violation: Use curs.execute('foo ?', (bar, baz)) instead of curs.execute('foo ?', bar, baz).
  • Free resources after executemany call.
  • Improved type handling. Initial support for BLOB columns.
• 0.1.2
  • easy_install JayDeBeApi should really work.
• 0.1.1
  • Fixed bug #688290 "NULL values with converters error on fetch".
  • Fixed bug #684909 "Selecting ROWIDs errors out on fetch".
• 0.1
  • Initial release.

To do

• Extract Java calls to seperate Java methods to increase performance.
• Check if https://code.launchpad.net/dbapi-compliance can help making JayDeBeApi more DB-API complient.
• Test it on different databases and provide a flexible db specific pluign mechanism.
• SQLAlchemy modules (seperate project)