Replicate Multiple Drip Accounts via the CData Sync CLI

CData Sync for Drip is a stand-alone application that provides solutions for a variety of replication scenarios such as replicating sandbox and production instances into your database. Both Sync for Windows and Sync for Java include a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easy to manage multiple Drip connections. In this article we show how to use the CLI to replicate multiple Drip accounts.

Configure Drip Connections

You can save connection and email notification settings in an XML configuration file. To replicate multiple Drip accounts, use multiple configuration files. Below is an example configuration to replicate Drip to SQLite:

Windows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
 <DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
 <DatabaseProvider>System.Data.SQLite</DatabaseProvider>
 <ConnectionString>Profile=C:\profiles\Drip.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=my_api_token';</ConnectionString>
 <ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
 <NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
 <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
 <TaskSchedulerStartTime>09:51</TaskSchedulerStartTime>
 <TaskSchedulerInterval>Never</TaskSchedulerInterval>
</CDataSync>

Java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
 <DatabaseProvider>org.sqlite.JDBC</DatabaseProvider>
 <ConnectionString>Profile=C:\profiles\Drip.apip;ProfileSettings='APIKey=my_api_token';</ConnectionString>
 <ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
 <NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
 <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
</CDataSync>

Set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Drip (see below).

Drip API Profile Settings

To use Token Authentication, specify your APIKey within the ProfileSettings connection property (e.g. "APIKey=my_api_token"). The APIKey should be set to your Drip personal API Token.

Configure Queries for Each Drip Instance

Sync enables you to control replication with standard SQL. The REPLICATE statement is a high-level command that caches and maintains a table in your database. You can define any SELECT query supported by the Drip API. The statement below caches and incrementally updates a table of Drip data:

REPLICATE Broadcasts;

You can specify a file containing the replication queries you want to use to update a particular database. Separate replication statements with semicolons. The following options are useful if you are replicating multiple Drip accounts into the same database:

You can use a different table prefix in the REPLICATE SELECT statement:

REPLICATE PROD_Broadcasts SELECT * FROM Broadcasts 

Alternatively, you can use a different schema:

REPLICATE PROD.Broadcasts SELECT * FROM Broadcasts

Run Sync

After you have configured the connection strings and replication queries, you can run Sync with the following command-line options:

Windows

APISync.exe -g MyProductionAPIConfig.xml -f MyProductionAPISync.sql

Java

java -Xbootclasspath/p:c:\sqlitejdbc.jar -jar APISync.jar -g MyProductionAPIConfig.xml -f MyProductionAPISync.sql