Visualize Gumroad Data in Sisense

Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism

Create an ElastiCube in Sisense app with access to Gumroad data.

Sisense lets you join, analyze, and picture data to make more intelligent business decisions and craft effective strategies. The CData API Driver for JDBC makes it easy to integrate with Gumroad data in Sisense. This article shows how to create an ElastiCube that connects to Gumroad data and use the ElastiCube to visualize Gumroad data in Sisense.

Configure the Connection to Gumroad

Before creating the ElastiCube, note the installation location for the JAR file for the JDBC Driver (typically C:\Program Files\CData\CData API Driver for JDBC 20XX\lib) or copy the jar file (cdata.jdbc.api.API.jar) to a new folder in the Sisense JDBC driver directory (typically C:\ProgramData\Sisense\DataConnectors\jdbcdrivers).

In the Data page of the Sisense application, create a new ElastiCube (or open an existing one).
In the Model Editor, click "+ Data" to open the Add Data dialog box.
Click Generic JDBC to open the JDBC settings.
Set the connection string property to the JDBC URL for Gumroad, adding required properties.
Using OAuth Authentication

To authenticate to Gumroad and connect to your own data or to allow other users to connect to their data, you can use the OAuth 2.0 standard. This is the recommended authentication method.

First you need to register an OAuth application with Gumroad. You can create an OAuth application by visiting your Gumroad account settings at https://app.gumroad.com/settings/advanced and navigating to the Applications section.

After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:
- AuthScheme: Set this to OAuth.
- InitiateOAuth: Set this to GETANDREFRESH. The CData API Profile for Gumroad will automatically walk through the OAuth process in order to obtain the access token.
- OAuthClientID: Set this to the client_id that is specified in your app settings.
- OAuthClientSecret: Set this to the client_secret that is specified in your app settings.
- CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URI you specified in your app settings.
Example connection string
```
Profile=C:\profiles\Gumroad.apip;AuthScheme=OAuth;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url;
```
Built-in Connection String Designer

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

When you configure the JDBC URL, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations.

A typical example follows:
```
jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Gumroad.apip;AuthScheme=OAuth;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;OAuthClientId=your_client_id;OAuthClientSecret=your_client_secret;CallbackUrl=your_callback_url;
```
Set the JDBC JARs folder property to the location of the CData JDBC Driver JAR file (see above).
Set the driver's class name to the class name for the JDBC Driver: cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver
Leave the username and password properties blank.
Click Next.

Add Gumroad Data to an ElastiCube

Once you are connected to Gumroad, you can add views to your ElastiCubes.

From the Tables list, select the tables and/or views you wish to work with.
(Optional) Click "+" to customize the data you want to import with SQL.
Click Done.
Click Build to build the ElastiCube for analytics.