Connect to LINE Data in NetBeans

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Connect to LINE data in NetBeans with the data source configuration wizard.

The CData JDBC Driver for LINE integrates connectivity to live LINE data in IDEs that support JDBC. The JDBC standard enables you to use built-in data access wizards and other tools supporting rapid development. This article shows how to connect to LINE data in NetBeans. You will create a connection and load LINE data in the Table Editor.

Create a JDBC Data Source for LINE in NetBeans

To create the JDBC data source, expand the Database node in the Service window, right-click the Drivers node, and select New Driver. In the New Driver wizard that results, enter the following information:

  • Driver File(s): Click Add and, in the file explorer dialog that appears, select the cdata.jdbc.api.jar file. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
  • Driver Class: Click Find to search for the driver class inside the JAR. Then select cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver from the menu.
  • Name: Enter the name for the driver.
The JDBC driver definition. (Salesforce is shown.)

Define Connection Parameters

Follow the steps below to define required connection properties:

  1. In the Service window, right-click the Database node and click New Connection.

  2. In the New Connection Wizard, enter the following connection properties:

    • Driver Name: In the menu, select the CData JDBC Driver for LINE.
    • User Name: Enter the username. This can also be defined in the JDBC URL.
    • Password: Enter the password. This can also be defined in the JDBC URL.
    • JDBC URL: Specify the JDBC URL.

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

      LINE API Profile Settings

      The LINE Messaging API uses Channel Access Token authentication. To obtain a Channel Access Token:

      1. Log in to the LINE Developers Console at https://developers.line.biz
      2. Select your provider and open your Messaging API channel.
      3. Navigate to the Messaging API tab.
      4. Under Channel access token, click Issue to generate a long-lived token.
      5. Copy the generated token.

      After obtaining your Channel Access Token, set the following connection properties:

      • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.

      Set the following in the ProfileSettings connection property:

      • APIKey: Set this to your LINE Channel Access Token.

      Built-in Connection String Designer

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

      Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)

      A typical JDBC URL is the following:

      jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\LINE.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_channel_access_token;';AuthScheme=APIKey;
Required connection properties defined in the JDBC URL. (Salesforce is shown.)

Query LINE Data

To connect to LINE data, right-click the connection in the Database node and click Connect. After the connection is established, you can expand it to discover schema information.

To load a table in the Data Views window, right-click the table and then click View Data..

The results of a query in NetBeans. (Salesforce is shown.)

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