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Provide current QuickBooks Online data to your embedded analytics.
The CData JDBC Driver for QuickBooks Online integrates connectivity to QuickBooks Online APIs into your data-driven Java applications. You can use the CData JDBC Driver for QuickBooks Online with the BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools) platform to create BIRT reports that reflect changes to your data in real time.
About QuickBooks Online Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from QuickBooks Online. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Realize high-performance data reads thanks to push-down query optimization for complex operations like filters and aggregations.
- Read, write, update, and delete QuickBooks Online data.
- Run reports, download attachments, and send or void invoices directly from code using SQL stored procedures.
- Connect securely using OAuth and modern cryptography, including TLS 1.2, SHA-256, and ECC.
Many users access live QuickBooks Online data from preferred analytics tools like Power BI and Excel, directly from databases with federated access, and use CData solutions to easily integrate QuickBooks Online data with automated workflows for business-to-business communications.
For more information on how customers are solving problems with CData's QuickBooks Online solutions, refer to our blog: https://www.cdata.com/blog/360-view-of-your-customers.
Getting Started
- If you have not already done so, install the BIRT Framework plugin and the Database Development plugin for Eclipse.
- Click File -> New -> Report. The Report Design perspective is opened.
- In the Data Explorer, right-click Data Sources and click New Data Source.
- Select the Create from a Data Source Type in the Following List option and select JDBC Data Source.
- Click Manage Drivers and add the driver JAR, located in the lib subfolder of the installation folder.
- In the Database URL box, enter the JDBC URL containing the connection string.
QuickBooks Online uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to log in through the browser. To authenticate using OAuth, you can use the embedded OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL or you can obtain your own by registering an app with Intuit. Additionally, if you want to connect to sandbox data, set UseSandbox to true.
See the Getting Started chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.
Built-in Connection String Designer
For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the QuickBooks Online JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
java -jar cdata.jdbc.quickbooksonline.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 JDBC URL is below:
jdbc:quickbooksonline:InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
- Right-click the Data Sets folder and select the JDBC data source for QuickBooks Online.
- In the resulting dialog, build the SELECT query to be used to retrieve the data for the report. This article uses the following query:
SELECT DisplayName, Balance FROM Customers
- In the Palette, drag a Chart onto the editor. The chart wizard is displayed.
- After selecting the chart type, drag columns onto the chart fields on the Select Data tab.
- Click Run -> View Report -> In Web Viewer to view the report.
Your BIRT reports can now pick up any updates to QuickBooks Online data.
To publish the report to your application server, add the driver JAR to the BIRT Viewer's classpath. For more information, see the CData KB for guides to deploying the JDBC Driver on Java application servers.