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Get the Report →Configure the CData JDBC Driver for Snapchat Ads in a Connection Pool in Tomcat
Connect to Snapchat Ads data from a connection pool in Tomcat.
The CData JDBC Drivers support standard JDBC interfaces to integrate with Web applications running on the JVM. This article details how to connect to Snapchat Ads data from a connection pool in Tomcat.
Connect to Snapchat Ads Data through a Connection Pool in Tomcat
- Copy the CData JAR and CData .lic file to $CATALINA_HOME/lib. The CData JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
- Add a definition of the resource to the context. Specify the JDBC URL here.
You will need to create an OAuth application to connect to Snapchat Ads. See the online Help documentation for an authentication guide.
Additionally, you can optionally set AccountId to provide a default Account ID (meaning it won't need to be manually provided in the WHERE clause). If the AccountId is not specified, the first account in the Accounts view is used.
Built-in Connection String Designer
For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Snapchat Ads JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
java -jar cdata.jdbc.snapchatads.jar
Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.
You can see the JDBC URL specified in the resource definition below.
<Resource name="jdbc/snapchatads" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="cdata.jdbc.snapchatads.SnapchatAdsDriver" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" url="jdbc:snapchatads:InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1" />
To allow a single application to access Snapchat Ads data, add the code above to the context.xml in the application's META-INF directory.
For a shared resource configuration, add the code above to the context.xml located in $CATALINA_BASE/conf. A shared resource configuration provides connectivity to Snapchat Ads for all applications.
- Add a reference to the resource to the web.xml for the application.
Snapchat Ads data JSP jdbc/SnapchatAds javax.sql.DataSource Container -
Initialize connections from the connection pool:
Context initContext = new InitialContext(); Context envContext = (Context)initContext.lookup("java:/comp/env"); DataSource ds = (DataSource)envContext.lookup("jdbc/SnapchatAds"); Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
More Tomcat Integration
The steps above show how to connect to Snapchat Ads data in a simple connection pooling scenario. For more use cases and information, see the JNDI Datasource How-To in the Tomcat documentation.