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MariaDB Connector/C++

This is a GA release of the MariaDB Connector/C++.

MariaDB Connector/C++ is released under version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser Public License.

License information can be found in the COPYING file. License (LGPL version 2.1)

To report issues: https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/CONCPP/issues/

Documentation: https://mariadb.com/docs/appdev/connector-cpp/

Basic Use

Connector implements JDBC API with minimal extensions and minimal reductions of methods, that do not make sense in C++

To be able to use API, a program should include its definition in ConnCpp.h header

#include  <mariadb/conncpp.hpp>

To obtain driver instance:

sql::Driver* driver= sql::mariadb::get_driver_instance();

To connect

sql::SQLString url("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/db");
sql::Properties properties({{"user", "root"}, {"password", "someSecretWord"}});
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn(driver->connect(url, properties));

Alternatively, connection object can be obtained via DriverManager class. In this case Driver object is not needed, and the connector throws exception, if connection could not be established for whatever reason. Please note, that for conencting via DriverManager only "jdbc:mariadb://" type of URL can be used.

sql::SQLString url("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/db");
sql::Properties properties({{"user", "roor"}, {"password", "someSecretWord"}});
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn(DriverManager::getConnection(url, properties));
// or
sql::SQLString url2("jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/db?user=root&password=someSecretWord");
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn2(DriverManager::getConnection(url));
// or
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn3(DriverManager::getConnection(url, "root", "someSecretWord"));

For URL syntax you may find here

The list of supported options:

Option Description Type Default Aliases
useServerPrepStmts Whether to use Server Side Prepared Statements(SSPS) for PreparedStatement by default, and not client side ones(CSPS) bool false
connectTimeout The connect timeout value, in milliseconds, or zero for no timeout. int 30000
socketTimeout Specifies the timeout in seconds for reading packets from the server. Value of 0 disables this timeout. int 0 OPT_READ_TIMEOUT
autoReconnect Enable or disable automatic reconnect. bool false OPT_RECONNECT
tcpRcvBuf The buffer size for TCP/IP and socket communication. tcpSndBuf changes the same buffer value, and the biggest value of the two is selected int 0x4000 tcpSndBuf
tcpSndBuf The buffer size for TCP/IP and socket communication. tcpRcvBuf changes the same buffer value, and the biggest value of the two is selected int 0x4000 tcpRcvBuf
localSocket For connections to localhost, the Unix socket file to use. string
pipe On Windows, specify the named pipe name to connect. string
useTls Whether to force TLS. This enables TLS with the default system settings. bool useSsl,useSSL
tlsKey File path to a private key file string sslKey
keyPassword Password for the private key string MARIADB_OPT_TLS_PASSPHRASE
tlsCert Path to the X509 certificate file string sslCert
tlsCA A path to a PEM file that should contain one or more X509 certificates for trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs) string tlsCa,sslCA
tlsCAPath A path to a directory that contains one or more PEM files that should each contain one X509 certificate for a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) to use string tlsCaPath, sslCAPath
enabledTlsCipherSuites a list of permitted ciphers or cipher suites to use for TLS string enabledSslCipherSuites, enabledSSLCipherSuites
tlsCRL path to a PEM file that should contain one or more revoked X509 certificates string tlsCrl, sslCRL
tlsCRLPath A path to a directory that contains one or more PEM files that should each contain one revoked X509 certificate. The directory specified by this option needs to be run through the openssl rehash command. This option is only supported if the connector was built with OpenSSL. string tlsCrlPath, sslCRLPath
tlsPeerFP A SHA1 fingerprint of a server certificate for validation during the TLS handshake. string tlsPeerFp, MARIADB_OPT_SSL_FP
tlsPeerFPList A file containing one or more SHA1 fingerprints of server certificates for validation during the TLS handshake. string tlsPeerFpList, MARIADB_OPT_SSL_FP_LIST
serverRsaPublicKeyFile The name of the file which contains the RSA public key of the database server. The format of this file must be in PEM format. This option is used by the caching_sha2_password client authentication plugin. string rsaKey
useCompression Compresses the exchange with the database bool false CLIENT_COMPRESS
jdbcCompliantTruncation Truncation error will be thrown as error, and not as warning bool true
useCharacterEncoding Character set used for text encoding. string OPT_SET_CHARSET_NAME,useCharset
credentialType Default authentication client-side plugin to use. string defaultAuth
allowLocalInfile Permits loading data from local file(on the client) with LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE statement. bool false
useResetConnection Makes Connection::reset() method to issue conenction reset command at the server. bool false
rewriteBatchedStatements For insert queries, rewrites batchedStatement to execute in a single executeQuery. Example: insert into ab (i) values (?) with first batch values = 1, second = 2 will be rewritten as INSERT INTO ab (i) VALUES (1), (2). If query cannot be rewriten in "multi-values", rewrite will use multi-queries : INSERT INTO TABLE(col1) VALUES (?) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col2=? with values [1,2] and [2,3]" will be rewritten as INSERT INTO TABLE(col1) VALUES (1) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col2=2;INSERT INTO TABLE(col1) VALUES (3) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE col2=4 If active, the useServerPrepStmts option is set to false. bool false
useBulkStmts Use dedicated COM_STMT_BULK_EXECUTE protocol for executeBatch if possible. Can be significanlty faster. (works only with server MariaDB >= 10.2.7). bool false
connectionAttributes If performance_schema is enabled, permits to send server some client information in a key:value pair format (example: connectionAttributes=key1:value1,key2,value2) This information can be retrieved on server within tables performance_schema.session_connect_attrs and performance_schema.session_account_connect_attrs. This allows an identification of client/application on server string

Properties is map of strings, and is another way to pass optional parameters.

In addition to Connector/J URL style and JDBC connect method, Connector/C++ supports following connect methods:

sql::SQLString user("root");
sql::SQLString pwd("root");
std::unique_ptr<sql::Connection> conn(driver->connect("tcp://localhost:3306/test", user, pwd));

and

sql::Properties properties;
properties["hostName"]= "127.0.0.1";
properties["userName"]= "root";
properties["password"]= "root";
std::unique_ptr<sql::Connection> conn(driver->connect(properties));

Host in former case can be defined as (tcp|unix|pipe)://<host>[:port][/] Properties in the latter case are the same, as in the first variant of the connect method, plus additionally supported

  • hostName
  • pipe
  • socket
  • schema
  • userName(alias for user)
  • password

std::string variables can be passed, where parameters are expected to be sql::SQLString

For further use one may refer to JDBC specs.

Except Driver object, normally this is application's responsibility to delete objects returned by the connector.