Viewing Recurly Data in RAD Studio Data Explorer

Embarcadero RAD Studio provides a development environment for Delphi and C++Builder applications. With the CData ODBC Driver for Recurly, you gain access to live Recurly data within RAD Studio, abstracting the data into tables, views, and stored procedures that can be used to both retrieve Recurly data. This article will walk through connecting to Recurly using the Data Explorer.

Configure a Connection to Recurly

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

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

Recurly API Profile Settings

Navigate to Integrations > API Credentials in your Recurly account and click Add Private API Key.

Connecting to Recurly Data Using Data Explorer

You can create a simple application for displaying Recurly data by utilizing the CData FireDAC Components for Recurly and a new VCL Forms Application:

1. Open the Data Explorer in RAD Studio and expand FireDAC.
2. Right-click the ODBC Data Source node in the Data Explorer.
3. Click Add New Connection.
4. Enter a name for the connection.
5. In the FireDAC Connection Editor that appears, set the DataSource property to the name of the ODBC DSN for Recurly.
6. Back in the Data Explorer, expand the views for the connection.

7. Create a new VCL Forms application and drag a view (for example: AccountAcquisition) onto the form.

   
8. Select the AccountAcquisitionView object on the form and set the Active property to true.

9. Right-click on the object, bind visually, and link everything (*) to a new control (TStringGrid).

   

10. Arrange the TStringGrid on the form and run the application to see the AccountAcquisition data.

    

Related Articles

Below you can find other articles for using the CData ODBC Driver with RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++ Builder.

• DataBind Controls to Recurly Data in C++Builder
• DataBind Controls to Recurly Data in Delphi
• Build a Simple VCL Application for Recurly Data