Connect to Supabase Data in CloverDX (formerly CloverETL)

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Transfer Supabase data using the visual workflow in the CloverDX data integration tool.

The CData JDBC Driver for Supabase enables you to use the data transformation components in CloverDX (formerly CloverETL) to work with Supabase as sources. In this article, you will use the JDBC Driver for Supabase to set up a simple transfer into a flat file. The CData JDBC Driver for Supabase enables you to use the data transformation components in CloverDX (formerly CloverETL) to work with Supabase as sources. In this article, you will use the JDBC Driver for Supabase to set up a simple transfer into a flat file.

Connect to Supabase as a JDBC Data Source

  1. Create the connection to Supabase data. In a new CloverDX graph, right-click the Connections node in the Outline pane and click Connections -> Create Connection. The Database Connection wizard is displayed.
  2. Click the plus icon to load a driver from a JAR. Browse to the lib subfolder of the installation directory and select the cdata.jdbc.api.jar file.
  3. Enter the JDBC URL.

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

    Supabase API Profile Settings

    Log into your Supabase account and navigate to Account Settings > Access Tokens to generate a new personal access token.

    Built-in Connection String Designer

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

    A typical JDBC URL is below:

    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Supabase.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key';

Query Supabase Data with the DBInputTable Component

  1. Drag a DBInputTable from the Readers selection of the Palette onto the job flow and double-click it to open the configuration editor.
  2. In the DB connection property, select the Supabase JDBC data source from the drop-down menu.
  3. Enter the SQL query. For example:
    SELECT Ref, PostgresVersion FROM Branch WHERE Status = 'active'

Write the Output of the Query to a UniversalDataWriter

  1. Drag a UniversalDataWriter from the Writers selection onto the jobflow.
  2. Double-click the UniversalDataWriter to open the configuration editor and add a file URL.
  3. Right-click the DBInputTable and then click Extract Metadata.
  4. Connect the output port of the DBInputTable to the UniversalDataWriter.
  5. In the resulting Select Metadata menu for the UniversalDataWriter, choose the Branch table. (You can also open this menu by right-clicking the input port for the UniversalDataWriter.)
  6. Click Run to write to the file.

Ready to get started?

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