Connect to Wave Financial Data and Transfer Data in Talend

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Wave Financial into your workflow in Talend. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Wave Financial to transfer Wave Financial data in a job flow in Talend.

Connect to Wave Financial in Talend as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Wave Financial:

1. Add a new database connection to Wave Financial data: To add a new connection, expand the Metadata node, right-click the Db Connections node, and then click Create Connection.
2. In the resulting wizard, enter a name for the connection.

3. On the next page, select Generic JDBC from the DB Type menu and enter the JDBC URL.

   Connect using the API Token

   You can connect to Wave Financial by specifying the APIToken You can obtain an API Token using the following steps:

   1. Log in to your Wave account and navigate to "Manage Applications" in the left pane.
   2. Select the application that you would like to create a token for. You may need to create an application first.
   3. Click the "Create token" button to generate an APIToken.

   Connect using OAuth

   If you wish, you can connect using the embedded OAuth credentials. See the Help documentation for more information.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Wave Financial JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.wavefinancial.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical JDBC URL is below:

   jdbc:wavefinancial:InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.wavefinancial.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Right-click the connection and then click Retrieve Schema.
6. Click Next with the default options to select the tables you want to import.
7. Finish the wizard with the default options.

Output the Invoices Table to a Flat File

You can follow the procedure below to transfer the Invoices table to a flat file output component:

1. In the Table Schemas node, drag the tables to the workspace.
2. In the dialog that is displayed, select the tJDBCInput component.
3. Next, drag a tFileOutputDelimited component from the Business Intelligence tab of the Palette into the workspace.
4. Right-click the Invoices tJDBCInput component and drag a vector to the output file.

Run the project to transfer the data.