Using Data Provider

Question

Hi,
I am using Data Provider.
Below are the pararmeters I am passing to it,
oms:dataSource <parameter>mslv/oms/oms1/internal/jdbc/DataSource</parameter> DefaultValue=Xquery
oms:sql <parameter>select name from employee where job=?</parameter> DefaultValue=Xquery
in:1
Now I want to pass a dynamic value for the where clause in the Sql.
My Order Data is,
<OrderData>
<Employee>
<Name></Name>
<Job>Engineer</Job>
</Employee>
</OrderData>
Now I want to pass the "Engineer" value to the where clause. How can I define a Xpath or Xquery for the in:1 parameter?
Please help.

Answer 1

You can find documentation for the DatabaseAdapter "Data Provider" class (also known as a View Framework Adapter) in the OSM SDK Javadocs. The Javadocs for the class provide information and an example to let you do what you are trying to do. I've copy/pasted them here for your reference:
This class implements a View Framework external instance adapter that executes a SQL statement and builds an XML document based on the result set.
There are two mandatory parameters for this class, oms:sql and oms:dataSource.
oms:dataSource: Refers to the jndi name of a JDBC datasource defined in WebLogic. For example 'mslv/oms/oms1/internal/jdbc/DataSource'
oms:sql: Contains the sql that will be sent to the database. For example 'select * from scott.emp where empno=?'
Additional optional input parameters may be supplied that will be bound to parameters defined in the oms:sql value. For example, in the above sql statement a parameter is used to define the value for 'empno' in the where clause. A value for this parameter may be specified by defining a paremter called "in:1". If there were additional input parameters defined in the sql statement, these could be passed as "in:2", "in:3" and so on.
In all cases these input parameters will be assumed to be string values and bound to the sql statement as string values.
The following is an example of using the DatabaseAdapter to invoke a query:
<instance name="well_paid_salesman" xsi:type="externalInstanceType">
<adapter>com.mslv.oms.view.rule.adapter.DatabaseAdapter</adapter> <parameter
name="oms:dataSource">'mslv/oms/oms1/internal/jdbc/DataSource'</parameter> <parameter
name="oms:sql">"select * from scott.emp where job='SALESMAN' and sal > ?"</parameter> <parameter
name="in:1">1250</parameter> </instance>
The above declaration returns the following XML instance:
<results> <rowSet> <row> <empno>7499</empno> <ename>ALLEN</ename> <job>SALESMAN</job> <mgr>7698</mgr>
<hiredate>1981-02-20 00:00:00.0</hiredate> <sal>1600</sal> <comm>300</comm> <deptno>30</deptno> </row> <row>
<empno>7844</empno> <ename>TURNER</ename> <job>SALESMAN</job> <mgr>7698</mgr> <hiredate>1981-09-08
00:00:00.0</hiredate> <sal>1500</sal> <comm>0</comm> <deptno>30</deptno> </row> </rowSet> </results>
The DatabaseAdapter can also be used to execute SQL stored procedures.
The DatabaseAdapter provides a stored procedure SQL escape syntax that allows stored procedures to be called in a standard way for all RDBMSs. This escape syntax is defined as part of the Java JDBC API.
This escape syntax has one form that includes a result parameter and one that does not. If used, the result parameter must be registered as an OUT parameter. The other parameters can be used for input, output or both. Parameters are referred to sequentially, by number, with the first parameter being 1.
{?= call [,, ...]}
{call [,, ...]}
Values for input parameters to the stored procedure are specified using the in:1, in:2 (etc.) parameters in the same way as they are for regular SQL queries.
Output parameters are specified using out:1, out:2 (etc.). Keep in mind that the parameter number (1, 2, 3, etc.) are numbered sequentially from 1 ordered from left to right in the specified SQL statement including both input and output parameters.
The value of the parameter is the parameter SQL type (see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/Types.html for a list of types).
The following example illustrates how to call a database stored procedure that has one output parameter (the result of the stored procedure call), and one input parameter.
<instance name="lock_count" xsi:type="externalInstanceType">
<adapter>com.mslv.oms.view.rule.adapter.DatabaseAdapter</adapter> <parameter
name="oms:dataSource">'mslv/oms/oms1/internal/jdbc/DataSource'</parameter> <parameter
name="oms:sql">"{? = call om_cartridge_pkg.get_any_cartridge_id('my_cartridge',?)}"</parameter> <parameter
name="out:1">'INTEGER'</parameter> <parameter name="in:2">'1.1'</parameter> </instance>
The above declaration returns the following XML instance:
<results> <outputParameter number="1">1234</outputParameter> </results>
Hope this helps.
Brian.