Access Live Asana Data in TIBCO Data Virtualization

TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources. When paired with the CData TIBCO DV Adapter for Asana, you get federated access to live Asana data directly within TIBCO Data Virtualization. This article walks through deploying an adapter and creating a new data source based on Asana.

With built-in optimized data processing, the CData TIBCO DV Adapter offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Asana data. When you issue complex SQL queries to Asana, the adapter pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Asana. Its built-in dynamic metadata querying allows you to work with and analyze Asana data using native data types.

Deploy the Asana TIBCO DV Adapter

1. In a console, navigate to the bin folder in the TDV Server installation directory. If there is a current version of the adapter installed, you will need to undeploy it.

   .\server_util.bat -server localhost -user admin -password ******** -undeploy -version 1 -name Asana
   

2. Extract the CData TIBCO DV Adapter to a local folder and deploy the JAR file (tdv.asana.jar) to the server from the extract location.

   .\server_util.bat -server localhost -user admin -password ******** -deploy -package /PATH/TO/tdv.asana.jar
   

You may need to restart the server to ensure the new JAR file is loaded properly, which can be accomplished by running the composite.bat script located at: C:\Program Files\TIBCO\TDV Server <version>\bin. Note that reauthenticating to the TDV Studio is required after restarting the server.

Sample Restart Call

.\composite.bat monitor restart

Authenticate with Asana Using OAuth

Since Asana authenticates using the OAuth protocol and TDV Studio does not support browser-based authentication internally, you will need to create and run a simple Java application to retrieve the OAuth tokens. Once retrieved, the tokens are used to connect to Asana directly from the adapter.

The following code sample shows how to authenticate with Asana. You will simply need to execute the Java application with the tdv.asana.jar file in the class path.

AsanaOAuth oauth = new AsanaOAuth();  
oauth.generateOAuthSettingsFile("InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;" + 
                                  "OAuthClientId=YourClientId;OAuthClientSecret=YourClientSecret;CallbackURL='http://localhost:33333';" + 
                                  "OAuthSettingsLocation=C:\asana\OAuthSettings.txt;");

Once you deploy the adapter and authenticate, you can create a new data source for Asana in TDV Studio.

Create a Asana Data Source in TDV Studio

With the CData TIBCO DV Adapter for Asana, you can easily create a data source for Asana and introspect the data source to add resources to TDV.

Create the Data Source

1. Right-click on the folder you wish to add the data source to and select New -> New Data Source.
2. Scroll until you find the adapter (e.g. Asana) and click Next.
3. Name the data source (e.g. CData Asana Source).

4. Fill in the required connection properties.

   You can optionally set the following to refine the data returned from Asana.

   • WorkspaceId: Set this to the globally unique identifier (gid) associated with your Asana Workspace to only return projects from the specified workspace. To get your workspace id, navigate to https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/workspaces while logged into Asana. This displays a JSON object containing your workspace name and Id.
   • ProjectId: Set this to the globally unique identifier (gid) associated with your Asana Project to only return data mapped under the specified project. Project IDs can be found in the URL of your project's Overview page. This will be the numbers directly after /0/.

   Connect Using OAuth Authentication

   You must use OAuth to authenticate with Asana. OAuth requires the authenticating user to interact with Asana using the browser. See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

   NOTE: Set the OAuthSettingsLocation property in the DV Adapter to the same value you used when performing the OAuth authentication (see above).

5. Click Create & Close.

Introspect the Data Source

Once the data source is created, you can introspect the data source by right-clicking and selecting Open. In the dashboard, click Add/Remove Resources and select the Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures to include as part of the data source. Click Next and Finish to add the selected Asana tables, views, and stored procedures as resources.

After creating and introspecting the data source, you are ready to work with Asana data in TIBCO Data Virtualization just like you would any other relational data source. You can create views, query using SQL, publish the data source, and more.