Manage Cloudflare Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use wizards in DBArtisan to create a JDBC data source for Cloudflare.

The CData JDBC Driver for Cloudflare seamlessly integrates Cloudflare data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Cloudflare data as a database. This article shows how to create a JDBC source for Cloudflare in DBArtisan. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Cloudflare Data into DBArtisan Projects

Follow the steps below to register Cloudflare data as a database instance in your project:

  1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
  2. Select Generic JDBC.
  3. Click Manage.
  4. In the resulting dialog, click New. Enter a name for the driver and click Add. In the resulting dialog, navigate to the driver JAR. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
  5. In the Connection URL box, enter credentials and other required connection properties in the JDBC URL.

    Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Cloudflare Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Cloudflare.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Cloudflare (see below).

    Cloudflare API Profile Settings

    Obtain your Global API Key or create an API Token from the Cloudflare dashboard under My Profile > API Tokens.

    Built-in Connection String Designer

    For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Cloudflare JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

    java -jar cdata.jdbc.api.jar
    

    Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

    Below is a typical connection string:

    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Cloudflare.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_token;APIEmail=your_email';
  6. Finish the wizard to connect to Cloudflare data. Cloudflare entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Cloudflare data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Cloudflare API.

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