New github repo for mv.jdbc

UPDATE: This repo is obsolete it's replaced by https://github.com/asharif/mv-session-mgr

Created a new project to attempt to be connecting to mvBase in a uniform JDBC compliant way. It also handles multiple threads as the original MVSP connectors don't somehow...(yikes!)

Check it out:

https://github.com/asharif/mv.jdbc

Connecting to mvBase 3.0 with Java

A couple posts back I went through the basics of PICK (mvBase). I finally got a chance to connect to it using the mvBase 3.0 MVSP with Java. First off we need the mvapi.jar which acts as our jdbc like interface (UPDATE: MVSP alone is actually hard to use in a web app as it does not handle any connection pooling and basically only allows one active connection at a time. It also doesn't work in a standard JDBC compliant manner which is why I started a project https://github.com/asharif/mv-session-mgr). I downloaded it off the tigerlogic ftp site ftp://ftp.tigerlogic.com/pub/MVSP/Java/

There are some samples in that zip file as well. Then it was just a matter of writing a bit of code:

package comuniversalmetalsmvbase;

import com.tigr.mvapi.MVConnection;
import com.tigr.mvapi.MVConstants;
import com.tigr.mvapi.MVStatement;
import com.tigr.mvapi.ResultSet.MVResultSet;
import com.tigr.mvapi.exceptions.MVException;
import java.util.Properties;

/**
 *
 * @author arash
 */
public class Main {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {



        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.setProperty("username", "MVSP");
        props.setProperty("password", "");
        String url = "jdbc:mv:mvbase:192.168.1.5:9010";
        String account = "SYSPROG";
        String AM = MVConstants.AM;
        String query;
        MVConnection connection = null;
        try
        {
            connection = new MVConnection(url, props);

            /**
             * Execute a query and display the results:
             */
            MVStatement mvStatement = connection.createStatement();
            connection.logTo(account, "");
           // query = "LIST CUSTOMERS (I";
            //boolean result = mvStatement.execute(query);
            //MVResultSet results = mvStatement.getResultSet();
            MVResultSet results = mvStatement.executeQuery("PEOPLE", "", "", "FIRST-NAME");
            while (results.next())
            {
                String row = results.getCurrentRow();
                System.out.println(row);
            }


        }
        catch (MVException e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.toString());

            
        }
        finally
        {
            if (connection != null)
            {
                try
                {
                    connection.close();
                }
                catch (MVException e)
                {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }

    }

}

Grails Spring Security & Ldap Plugins

So I had to implement a user authentication + role based system at work. Sounded like a perfect fit for Spring Security and the LDAP Grails plugins. Unfortunately they weren't that straight forward at the time. Since then I updated the official docs. See the link:

http://burtbeckwith.github.com/grails-spring-security-ldap/docs/manual/index.html