Connect to Gong Data in DigitalSuite Studio through RunMyProcess DSEC

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use Arkobi Digital's low-code cloud native platform RunMyProcess's DigitalSuite EnterpriseConnect (DSEC) to connect to Gong.

The CData JDBC Driver for Gong implements JDBC Standards and enables a applications ranging from BI to IDE to connect with Gong. In this article, we describe how to connect to Gong data from Arkobi Digital RunMyProcess's DSEC and connect to Gong in RunMyProcess.

Setting up EnterpriseConnect Agent

Configure the EnterpriseConnect Agent following the EnterpriseConnect page in the RunMyProcess documentation.

Setting up JDBC Adapter

The JDBC Adapter section describes the steps to connect to RDBMS through JDBC. Follow the steps and open the JDBC.config file.

  1. Create a JSON entry for the CData JDBC Driver for Gong, e.g.
    API = {
      "sqlDriver" : "...",
      "sqlSource" : "...",
      "sqlDriverPath" : "..."
    }
    
  2. Set the "sqlDriver" field to the Class name for the CData JDBC Driver, e.g.
    cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver
  3. Set the "sqlSource" field to a JDBC URL for connecting to Gong, e.g.
    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Gong.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key;APISecret=your_api_secret;Domain=your-tenant.api.gong.io';

    Built-in Connection String Designer

    For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Gong 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.

    To authenticate to Gong, you can use API Key authentication with your Gong API Key and API Secret.

    Authentication

    To authenticate to Gong, you must provide your Gong API Key and API Secret, along with your tenant Domain. These credentials are combined and Base64-encoded to form the Basic authentication header used for all API requests.

    Using API Key Authentication

    To authenticate using an API Key, you need to obtain your API Key and API Secret from your Gong account settings.

    You can then connect by setting the AuthScheme to APIKey and providing your credentials:

    • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
    • APIKey: Set this to your Gong API Key.
    • APISecret: Set this to your Gong API Secret.
    • Domain: Set this to your Gong tenant domain (e.g., us-36533.api.gong.io).

    Example connection string

    Profile=C:\profiles\Gong.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key;APISecret=your_api_secret;Domain=your-tenant.api.gong.io';
    
  4. Set the "sqlDriverPath" field to the name of the CData JDBC Driver JAR file, e.g.
    cdata.jdbc.api.jar

Sample JDBC.config File

#DBAgent Configuration
API = {"sqlDriver" : "cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver", "sqlSource" = "jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Gong.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key;APISecret=your_api_secret;Domain=your-tenant.api.gong.io';","sqlDriverPath" = "cdata.jdbc.api.jar" }

Put the JDBC driver JAR file (cdata.jdbc.api.jar) into the same directory as unified-adapter-[version].jar.

Note: Make sure to put the CData license file (cdata.jdbc.api.lic) into the same directory. Since the license is generated based on the unique identifier of the machine where the product in installed, you will need an offline activation if you want to put the file on another machine.

Starting DigitalSuite EnterpriseConnect Agent

In Windows, start RunMyProcess DigitalSuite EnterpriseConnect Agent in Windows services. To start the application through command line, see Starting the EnterpriseConnect Agent in the RunMyProcess documents.

Starting the JDBC Adapter

Start the JDBC Adapter from runAdapter.bat. Once the Adapter is running, you can access the application through the agent address (e.g. 127.0.0.1:8080). Below is an example executing the command in Windows.

... > java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=./log.properties -cp lib/* org.runmyprocess.sec2.AdapterHandler :
2021-06-09 14:37:58|INFO|correlationId=|Searching for config file...
2021-06-09 14:37:58|INFO|correlationId=|Adapter Handler started with [JDBC] configuration
2021-06-09 14:37:59|INFO|correlationId=|agent address: 127.0.0.1:8080
2021-06-09 14:38:00.251:INFO::ConnectionThread: Logging initialized @1820ms to org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog
2021-06-09 14:38:00|INFO|correlationId=|onConnect() websocket connection between Agent and Adapter established

Once the DigitalSuite EnterpriseConnect Agent and JDBC Adapter are running, access http://localhost:(specified-port-number)/ through your browser to open the page shown below.

Check the availability of the JDBC Adapter using tools such as Postman or cURL. Here, we use Postman to send the HTTP POST request.

Configure the RequestHeader as follows:

Content-Type application/json

Configure the RequestBody as follows:

{
	"protocol":"JDBC",
	"data":{
		"DBType":"API",
		"sqlUsername":"",
		"sqlPassword":"",
		"sqlStatement":"SELECT * FROM AnsweredScorecards"
	}
}

If the JDBC.config file contains credential information, sqlUsername and sqlPassword can be left empty. If you are not sure of the table name, you can retrieve the list of tables using the request SELECT * FROM sys_tables

The request is successful if the Status is 200 and the Body contains Gong data in JSON format.

Connect to Gong through DSEC Agent in DigitalSuite Studio

Create a DigitalSuite Studio project and then create a Provider in the project.

  • URL: The URL for accessing JDBC Agent (e.g. http:localhost:8080/)
  • Authentication Scheme: Login/password
  • Login: The value from agent.user in the application.properties file
  • Password: agent.password in the application.properties file
  • Secured: Checked
  • Use DigitalSuite EnterpriseConnect: Checked
  • With domain: The value from agent.domain in application.properties file

Next, create a Connector in the Provider.

  • Connector URL: Leave this empty
  • Architecture: REST/XML-RPC
  • Method: POST
  • Result format: JSON
  • Accept media type: application/json
  • Character set: Automatic
  • Content: Same as the Request body used in the JDBC Adapter
  • Content type: application/json

The JSON data we used as the Request body in JDBC Adapter:

{
	"protocol":"JDBC",
	"data":{
		"DBType":"API",
		"sqlUsername":"",
		"sqlPassword":"",
		"sqlStatement":"SELECT * FROM AnsweredScorecards"
	}
}

Open Launch Test to perform the test. The test is successful if Gong data is shown in Result on the right pane.

Now you can use Gong data in RunMyProcess DigitalSuite Studio through DSEC.

For the detailed information on supported SQL commands, refer to the SQL Compliance section in our help documentation. For information on tables, refer to the Data Model section.

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