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.

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"));
// or
MariaDbDataSource ds(url);
// Connections obrained via DataSource object are taken from the connetion pool, that automatically created in this case
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn4(ds.getConnection("root", "someSecretWord"));
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn5(ds.getConnection()); // ds remembers user/passwd after first call, alternatively ds.setUser() andsetPassword() can be used
// ds.close() would close the pool making conn4 and conn5 unusable
// thus conn4 and conn5 should be either reset before ds.close() call, or released after

// or
sql::SQLString failoverUrl("jdbc:mariadb:sequential://localhost:3306,failoverhost1.com,[::1]:3307,failoverhost2.com:3307/db?user=root&password=someSecretWord");
std::unique_ptr<Connection> conn6(DriverManager::getConnection(failoverUrl));

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
trustServerCertificate	When using TLS, do not check server's certificate.	bool	true
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
defaultFetchSize	The driver will call setFetchSize(n) with this value on all newly-created Statements	int	0
pool	Use connections pool.	bool	false
maxPoolSize	The maximum number of physical connections that the pool should contain.	int	8
minPoolSize	When connections are removed due to not being used for longer than than "maxIdleTime", connections are closed and removed from the pool. "minPoolSize" indicates the number of physical connections the pool should keep available at all times. Should be less or equal to maxPoolSize.	int	maxPoolSize value
maxIdleTime	The maximum amount of time in seconds that a connection can stay in the pool if not used. This value must always be below @wait_timeout value - 45s. Default: 600 in seconds (=10 minutes), minimum value is 60 seconds	int	600
poolValidMinDelay	When the pool is requested for a connection, it will validate the connection state. "poolValidMinDelay" allows to disable this validation if the connection has been used recently, avoiding useless verifications in case of frequent reuse of connections. 0 means validation is done each time the connection is requested.	int	1000
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. This option existed from first version, but was not documented. Since 1.1.1 its default changed to true	bool	true
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
cachePrepStmts	Enable/disable Server Side Prepared Statement cache.	bool	false
prepStmtCacheSize	This sets the number of prepared statements that the driver will cache per connection if "cachePrepStmts" is enabled.	int	250
prepStmtCacheSqlLimit	This is the maximum length of a (SQL query length + schema name length + 1) for the statement that the driver will cache if "cachePrepStmts" is enabled.	int	2048
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
log	The logging level. Setting it to non-zero effectively turns on the logging. The levels are 1- error, 2- warning, 3- info, 4 - debug, 5-trace	uint	0
logname	Name of the file to write the log in. If the name is set, and the log level is not, the level will be set to 'error'. The option does not have default value, but the logger has default name and location for the log file. The name is mariadbccpp.log, the location is %TMP% or %USERPROFILE% or current dir on Windows, or $HOME or /tmp on other systems.	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.