Connect to Adobe Commerce Data in RapidMiner

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Adobe Commerce into your processes in RapidMiner. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Commerce to transfer Adobe Commerce data to a process in RapidMiner.

Connect to Adobe Commerce in RapidMiner as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Adobe Commerce:

1. Add a new database driver for Adobe Commerce: Click Connections -> Manage Database Drivers.
2. In the resulting wizard, click the Add button and enter a name for the connection.
3. Enter the prefix for the JDBC URL:

   jdbc:adobe commerce:
   

4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Enter the driver class:

   cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.Adobe CommerceDriver
   

   👁 The JDBC driver configuration. (Salesforce is shown.)
   
6. Create a new Adobe Commerce connection: Click Connections -> Manage Database Connections.
7. Enter a name for your connection.
8. For Database System, select the Adobe Commerce driver you configured previously.
9. Enter your connection string in the Host box.

   Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.

   You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.

   • Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.

   • Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.

     If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

   Built-in Connection String Designer

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

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.jar
   

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

   👁 Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)
   

   A typical connection string is below:

   OAuthClientId=MyConsumerKey;OAuthClientSecret=MyConsumerSecret;CallbackURL=http://127.0.0.1:33333;Url=https://myAdobe Commercehost.com;
   

10. Enter your username and password if necessary. 👁 The connection to the JDBC data source. (Salesforce is shown.)
    

You can now use your Adobe Commerce connection with the various RapidMiner operators in your process. To retrieve Adobe Commerce data, drag the Retrieve operator from the Operators view. 👁 A Retrieve operation to select data. (Salesforce is shown.)
With the Retrieve operator selected, you can then define which table to retrieve in the Parameters view by clicking the folder icon next to the "repository entry." In the resulting Repository Browser, you can expand your connection node to select the desired example set.

Finally, wire the output to the Retrieve process to a result, and run the process to see the Adobe Commerce data.