Connect to OData Services in Aqua Data Studio

The CData JDBC Driver for OData integrates OData services with wizards and analytics in IDEs like Aqua Data Studio. This article shows how to connect to OData services through the connection manager and execute queries.

Create a JDBC Data Source

You can use the connection manager to define connection properties and save them in a new JDBC data source. The OData data source can then be accessed from Aqua Data Studio tools.

1. In Aqua Data Studio, select Register Server from the Servers menu.
2. In the Register Server form, select the 'Generic - JDBC' connection.
3. Enter the following JDBC connection properties:
   • Name: Enter a name for the data source; for example, OData.
   • Driver Location: Click the Browse button and select the cdata.jdbc.odata.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
   • Driver: Enter the Driver's class name, cdata.jdbc.odata.ODataDriver.

   • URL: Enter the JDBC URL, which starts with jdbc:odata: and is followed by a semicolon-separated list of connection properties.

     The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid OData user credentials. In addition, you will need to specify a URL to a valid OData server organization root or OData services file.

     Built-in Connection String Designer

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

     java -jar cdata.jdbc.odata.jar

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

     A typical JDBC URL is below:
     jdbc:odata:URL=http://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc;UseIdUrl=True;OData Version=4.0;Data Format=ATOM;

Query OData Services

You can now query the tables exposed.